Not every wife has someone who can convert her to Linux, probably more than 99% don't have someone who can install it, assist with the learning Linux process, and help with anything that might not work right. I've seen many of the 99% getting by just fine with Chrome Books too.
Everyone here pointing out what Disney is doing to their IT staff will go see the new "Disney Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and every sequel. Even if most IT people didn't go see it, they will still make record profits, having over $50 million in pre-sales already. There doesn't appear to be a way to stop it from happening.
Using OneNote at work, text notes and screen shots, with the ability to search text in the screen shot images. Organized into notebooks, sections, and pages. Great if you already use Office.
I like how it was discovered. We're in West Virginia, and need to evaluate tailpipe emissions, so we get some nice cars and spend lots of time driving up and down the coast of California. Sounds like a good team to be on, but then again, maybe driving around in California wasn't so pleasant. At least the project produced good results.
Wouldn't that thin layer over a sunny ball evaporate faster? And would the over-all wet-ball surface simply be a larger surface area than the otherwise planar surface -- also contributing to greater evaporation?
The balls are partially filled with water, so they don't float exactly on top, and it probably prevents them from rolling over as much.
The system is broken badly, and no government or private company is doing much to really fix it. My brother had his identy stolen and it made his life miserable for years. He eventually learned that a health care company had went out of business and simply threw their records in the trash, where they were retrieved by the thief. They caught him several times, with stolen identies of many people, but he keeps doing it because there is no real deterrent. Since it's considered a non-violent crime, the cops have limited resources, and the courts hand down weak penalties, which can't be enforced if the jails/prisons are full with violent criminals. Such bullcrap that people get away with ID theft so easily. Nearly makes you want to find the person and take care of the problem on your own.
Unless the real batteries are not rechargeable, from a car or solar power or some other source, or you have stored a bunch of alkalines and they still work. I guess the only safe option is to have the crank radio.
My Samsung Omnia from 6 years ago and Motorola Droid X from 4 years ago both had a working FM receiver, then 2 years ago I get a Samsung Note II and discover that it has a receiver, but it was disabled by either the manufacturer or the carrier. At first I thought it was mostly because Verizon wants us to listen to streaming radio and use more data so they can make more money. Then I read on some forums that any device with an FM receiver must undergo additional testing to meet FCC requirements, with cost proportional to the amount of spectrum used. So on a carrier with a large amount of spectrum (Verizon), neither the manufacturer (Samsung) nor the carrier wants to pay the fees. Sprint offers same model phones with working FM radio and the NextRadio app, which receives the FM signal, and optionally a small amount of bandwidth for the album cover and a link. Recently I saw a coworker on Verizon demonstrate a working FM radio on his HTC One M8, which means that HTC must have paid for the FCC testing to leave the FM radio functioning on a Verizon phone. The NextRadio app did not work on a Samsung S5. Most carriers will say that FM listeners are declining because of streaming and MP3s, so why bother with it.
Yes you need headphones, or a line in to your PC, or even a chopped off 3.5mm pigtail to receive the signal. Many people in the stores do not know the difference between an app like TuneIn and an FM receiver. I thought we might see HD Radio in phones by now, but it's proprietary so I can see why we might not. I was up for a new phone two months ago, but refuse to purchase one that contains a disabled FM receiver. I'm not switching carriers because of it, but it will be a deciding factor in which phone I purchase next. Then I can stop carrying around this Insignia HD Radio.
I have tried three times to get through Anathem, but can't seem to get myself past about the first 1/4 or 1/3 of it. My first attempt was just after finishing Cryptonomicon, so maybe I went into it expecting something similar, but it was nothing like it. On my next attempt I will try harder to get past the first 300 pages and see how it improves beyond that point.
And let's not forget what the City of Los Angeles did to Owens Lake. "... in 2013, it is the largest single source of dust pollution in the United States."
I've been using the Ctrl-C on message boxes for a long time. It's just easier than a screen shot or snip.
I was going to paste one here, but it said, "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
I think many people will buy Windows 9 just to get the start screen fixed.
Dual flush toilets are common here in the drought prone San Diego area. Press and release for low volume flush (yellow content), press and hold a few sesonds for complete flush (brown content). The flapper is heavy and closes faster, unless you hold it. I'm starting to see no flush urinals more now too.
Fairly easy. Install latest NVIDIA driver for my graphics card, wait for screen saver to start, observe sad face emoticon blue screen. If you're not sure which driver is causing the bug check, the driver verifier can help diagnose the problem. I've encountered this one and one for a registry issue, which was resolved by cleaning it three times.
This was the topic of "How the Universe Works" last night. Even if we figured out the propulsion system (fusion or anti-matter), and figured out a good way to maintain artificial gravity, we would still face the issue of being exposed to large doses of radiation. A simple coating to absorb the radiation wouldn't work because it emits the absorbed radiation in another form, which is still harmful. We would need some type of magnetic shielding similar to how the Earth is currently protected. They said that NASA is already working on the next generation heavy lift vehicles that could be used to construct a large craft in orbit. It's not going to happen in my lifetime, but eventually we will need to leave this planet.
Ever experienced a severe, life ruining case of identity theft? Medical company goes out of business, throws away all records, criminals obtain records and assume identities of past patients, and victims spends many years fighting off all kinds of fradulent activity. But the entire system is broken with no fix in sight, and the criminals know this and continue their activities, especially when there is no actual jail time to worry about.
Image title text, "A laptop battery contains roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it..." Makes me wonder why a terrorist doesn't attempt blowing up a plane by collecting all electronic device batteries and making some kind of fire or explosion out of them. Probably because when passengers get asked for their devices they will fight back.
When testing my residential with SpeakEasy, to see if Gargoyle affected it, I received slightly over the advertised PowerBoost speeds. I've lived and worked in parts of Chula Vista and South San Diego, and vendor availability is based on where you live/work. Where I live now I can't get TimeWarner, but a past neighbor had Verizon FiOS for a while, which would be the only other wired option. Cox advertisements are based how fast it is, with little or no mention of limits.
Now that I've thought about it more, and read more comments, they could charge a low connection fee, say $10-$25 depending on pipe size, and then some fee per unit of use, like $2 per 10 GB, or something like that, where it's usage based, and charge extra for email or online storage. That crazy idea I heard about everyone leaving their wireless unsecured is never going to happen. At 80 GB a day the OP would have received a large bill.
I recently updated my router with Gargoyle to monitor usage because I received an email stating that I exceeded my plan limit. http://www.cox.com/aboutus/pol... (Updated 11/18/13)
Starter 50 GB at 1 Mbps down, 384 Kbps up for $32.99 -
Essential 100 GB at 5/1 for $47.99 -
Preferred 250 GB at 25/5 for $61.99 -
Premier 300 GB at 50/10 for $73.99 -
Ultimate 400 GB at 100 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up for $99.99 -
Discounted prices available for new customers or bundled services.
Faster speeds help reach the limit quicker.
A while back they stopped offering web site space and turned off the Usenet/Newsgroup servers, but now they offer online storage space.
I guess limits were introduced because some users were hogging all the bandwidth and making a bad experience for other users. It might also have something to do with the rise of online video, like Netflix, which competes with their OnDemand service.
It's good that they notify customers, for cases of neighbors using open or hacked wifi, or some kind of malware, or Fire TV screen saver bugs.
"Very few customers - up to 5% - exceed their data plans in any given month." Electricity and water here are also priced by tier usage.
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I've had plenty of stuff not "just work" on Ubuntu and Mint installations. I guess you could pay a bit more and go Apple Mac, might be worth it.
Not every wife has someone who can convert her to Linux, probably more than 99% don't have someone who can install it, assist with the learning Linux process, and help with anything that might not work right. I've seen many of the 99% getting by just fine with Chrome Books too.
Everyone here pointing out what Disney is doing to their IT staff will go see the new "Disney Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and every sequel. Even if most IT people didn't go see it, they will still make record profits, having over $50 million in pre-sales already. There doesn't appear to be a way to stop it from happening.
And everyone will still go watch Star Wars The Force Awakens, making them more money, and nothing happens.
Using OneNote at work, text notes and screen shots, with the ability to search text in the screen shot images. Organized into notebooks, sections, and pages. Great if you already use Office.
I like how it was discovered. We're in West Virginia, and need to evaluate tailpipe emissions, so we get some nice cars and spend lots of time driving up and down the coast of California. Sounds like a good team to be on, but then again, maybe driving around in California wasn't so pleasant. At least the project produced good results.
Wouldn't that thin layer over a sunny ball evaporate faster? And would the over-all wet-ball surface simply be a larger surface area than the otherwise planar surface -- also contributing to greater evaporation?
The balls are partially filled with water, so they don't float exactly on top, and it probably prevents them from rolling over as much.
The system is broken badly, and no government or private company is doing much to really fix it. My brother had his identy stolen and it made his life miserable for years. He eventually learned that a health care company had went out of business and simply threw their records in the trash, where they were retrieved by the thief. They caught him several times, with stolen identies of many people, but he keeps doing it because there is no real deterrent. Since it's considered a non-violent crime, the cops have limited resources, and the courts hand down weak penalties, which can't be enforced if the jails/prisons are full with violent criminals. Such bullcrap that people get away with ID theft so easily. Nearly makes you want to find the person and take care of the problem on your own.
I wish law enforcement would crack down on the stupidly overbright headlamps.
I think "Hulk SMASH" in my head everytime they momentarily blind me.
In 1991 I had a Geo Metro that got 50 US highway MPG unleaded. Yes it was a small car, but that was about 25 years ago!
Unless the real batteries are not rechargeable, from a car or solar power or some other source, or you have stored a bunch of alkalines and they still work. I guess the only safe option is to have the crank radio.
My Samsung Omnia from 6 years ago and Motorola Droid X from 4 years ago both had a working FM receiver, then 2 years ago I get a Samsung Note II and discover that it has a receiver, but it was disabled by either the manufacturer or the carrier. At first I thought it was mostly because Verizon wants us to listen to streaming radio and use more data so they can make more money. Then I read on some forums that any device with an FM receiver must undergo additional testing to meet FCC requirements, with cost proportional to the amount of spectrum used. So on a carrier with a large amount of spectrum (Verizon), neither the manufacturer (Samsung) nor the carrier wants to pay the fees. Sprint offers same model phones with working FM radio and the NextRadio app, which receives the FM signal, and optionally a small amount of bandwidth for the album cover and a link. Recently I saw a coworker on Verizon demonstrate a working FM radio on his HTC One M8, which means that HTC must have paid for the FCC testing to leave the FM radio functioning on a Verizon phone. The NextRadio app did not work on a Samsung S5. Most carriers will say that FM listeners are declining because of streaming and MP3s, so why bother with it.
Yes you need headphones, or a line in to your PC, or even a chopped off 3.5mm pigtail to receive the signal. Many people in the stores do not know the difference between an app like TuneIn and an FM receiver. I thought we might see HD Radio in phones by now, but it's proprietary so I can see why we might not. I was up for a new phone two months ago, but refuse to purchase one that contains a disabled FM receiver. I'm not switching carriers because of it, but it will be a deciding factor in which phone I purchase next. Then I can stop carrying around this Insignia HD Radio.
I have tried three times to get through Anathem, but can't seem to get myself past about the first 1/4 or 1/3 of it. My first attempt was just after finishing Cryptonomicon, so maybe I went into it expecting something similar, but it was nothing like it. On my next attempt I will try harder to get past the first 300 pages and see how it improves beyond that point.
And it's virtually impossible to get a tenured teacher fired. Smart indeed. Even better, become a computer science teacher.
And let's not forget what the City of Los Angeles did to Owens Lake. " ... in 2013, it is the largest single source of dust pollution in the United States."
I've been using the Ctrl-C on message boxes for a long time. It's just easier than a screen shot or snip. I was going to paste one here, but it said, "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I think many people will buy Windows 9 just to get the start screen fixed.
Could be worse, like doing all that work in PL/1.
Dual flush toilets are common here in the drought prone San Diego area. Press and release for low volume flush (yellow content), press and hold a few sesonds for complete flush (brown content). The flapper is heavy and closes faster, unless you hold it. I'm starting to see no flush urinals more now too.
Fairly easy. Install latest NVIDIA driver for my graphics card, wait for screen saver to start, observe sad face emoticon blue screen. If you're not sure which driver is causing the bug check, the driver verifier can help diagnose the problem. I've encountered this one and one for a registry issue, which was resolved by cleaning it three times.
This was the topic of "How the Universe Works" last night. Even if we figured out the propulsion system (fusion or anti-matter), and figured out a good way to maintain artificial gravity, we would still face the issue of being exposed to large doses of radiation. A simple coating to absorb the radiation wouldn't work because it emits the absorbed radiation in another form, which is still harmful. We would need some type of magnetic shielding similar to how the Earth is currently protected. They said that NASA is already working on the next generation heavy lift vehicles that could be used to construct a large craft in orbit. It's not going to happen in my lifetime, but eventually we will need to leave this planet.
Jailing non-violent people is idiotic.
Ever experienced a severe, life ruining case of identity theft? Medical company goes out of business, throws away all records, criminals obtain records and assume identities of past patients, and victims spends many years fighting off all kinds of fradulent activity. But the entire system is broken with no fix in sight, and the criminals know this and continue their activities, especially when there is no actual jail time to worry about.
Image title text, "A laptop battery contains roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it ..." Makes me wonder why a terrorist doesn't attempt blowing up a plane by collecting all electronic device batteries and making some kind of fire or explosion out of them. Probably because when passengers get asked for their devices they will fight back.
When testing my residential with SpeakEasy, to see if Gargoyle affected it, I received slightly over the advertised PowerBoost speeds. I've lived and worked in parts of Chula Vista and South San Diego, and vendor availability is based on where you live/work. Where I live now I can't get TimeWarner, but a past neighbor had Verizon FiOS for a while, which would be the only other wired option. Cox advertisements are based how fast it is, with little or no mention of limits.
Now that I've thought about it more, and read more comments, they could charge a low connection fee, say $10-$25 depending on pipe size, and then some fee per unit of use, like $2 per 10 GB, or something like that, where it's usage based, and charge extra for email or online storage. That crazy idea I heard about everyone leaving their wireless unsecured is never going to happen. At 80 GB a day the OP would have received a large bill.
Forgot to give location, San Diego, California, USA.
I recently updated my router with Gargoyle to monitor usage because I received an email stating that I exceeded my plan limit.
http://www.cox.com/aboutus/pol... (Updated 11/18/13)
Starter 50 GB at 1 Mbps down, 384 Kbps up for $32.99 -
Essential 100 GB at 5/1 for $47.99 -
Preferred 250 GB at 25/5 for $61.99 -
Premier 300 GB at 50/10 for $73.99 -
Ultimate 400 GB at 100 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up for $99.99 -
Discounted prices available for new customers or bundled services. Faster speeds help reach the limit quicker. A while back they stopped offering web site space and turned off the Usenet/Newsgroup servers, but now they offer online storage space. I guess limits were introduced because some users were hogging all the bandwidth and making a bad experience for other users. It might also have something to do with the rise of online video, like Netflix, which competes with their OnDemand service. It's good that they notify customers, for cases of neighbors using open or hacked wifi, or some kind of malware, or Fire TV screen saver bugs. "Very few customers - up to 5% - exceed their data plans in any given month."
Electricity and water here are also priced by tier usage.