I didn't hear anything about them suspending the sale of RED phones, and BLU and RED are always up to the same shit. It's almost like Spy Vs. Spy or something.
But only as long as most of them do it. If the ad-hoc union gets enough defectors (call them "scabs"), then the surge price will never hit and the scabs will be making money while the good union boys sit logged out.
Some, maybe many, drivers would be fine with this. They don't want to drive unless they will make a certain amount, and often they have other "side gigs" that make more money than non-surge pricing. Since they can't currently demand a certain rate in order to work at all, this is their workaround -- only log in at times they think the surge pricing will be in effect. If I were to drive for Uber or any other such service, that's what I'd be doing. I have better things to do with my time (and the life of my car) than make $5 an hour after expenses.
Something many people may be unaware of, is that black powder weapons are completely uncontrolled. Bullets can't be expensive so long as lead is pennies a pound -- I've cast them myself, it's a really simple procedure -- and cartridges are frequently reloaded. It's a joke, and a reasonably funny one, but it doesn't go much further than that. Even if somehow all existing cartridges could be cleared from circulation to prevent reloading, you'd just see a rise in the ownership of black powder pistols.
Eww. Bay Fail, the doughiest of half-baked Intel releases. Sure it's x86-64, but it's still crap. (You may not notice too much running Mint or something like it though.) The only solution that finally solved my Bay Trail problems was to sell it and get a Haswell replacement. I wouldn't in good conscience advise anyone to do anything requiring reliability with a Bay Trail machine.
Having to force-load the video chipset driver from Vista caused all sorts of wheel-spinning and video corruption, but it was the only game in town after XP support ended. It was time to get her onto a 64-bit system anyhow, and Core 2 Duo machines are cheap. They weren't quite as cheap when I got it for her, but they were still pretty budget-friendly. I just wish I had known before I bought a 160 GB PATA drive for her old laptop. It only got about two months of use before the machine essentially got retired.
No. Even Windows 7 made it extremely difficult to do that. That is why when XP went out of support, I had little choice but to replace my mother's 9 year old laptop (with i915G chipset)... with a 7 year old laptop that has modern enough features to run just about anything. (The Core 2 Duo was and continues to be a pretty impressive chip.) I pretty much consider this the beginning of the window of machines still worth keeping in service -- x64, SATA II, 4 GB capability. While there's definitely a ceiling to be bumped into, it's still adequate for a lot of purposes.
My "toy" Aspire One has a 945G chipset and has been supported to date, but I can't really be too upset at "toy computers" getting less support from current software. I didn't really expect more than 4 or 5 years of daily driver capability out of it in the first place. The hardware is just too limited. It sits in a lunch cooler bag, getting pulled out for updates a few times a year, because it's just too painful to use for anything else. (That includes Mint, which I did try. I'd rather use a sub-$100 used Chromebook if that's my choice of OS.)
Honestly I don't need the "feature creep" of new versions anyhow. If I need to do something that wasn't included in the prior version of Windows, then I already have software designed to fill that need. The only problem I can see is that incorporating features into the mainline version of Windows can lead to developers abandoning products because their market has been undercut. Those who still need them will be stuck with old versions of both OS and app. I would rather have had the option of continuing with Anniversary on both of my machines, but doing a fresh install for Creators on my desktop turned out to be a blessing anyhow. All sorts of weird little glitches accumulated from years of in-place upgrades got resolved at once.
MS says security patches will continue. If they're good to their word, I don't see any major problems with this other than the aforementioned gutting of third party app support due to a loss of revenue.
Actually, a pompadour (once his preference) made him look like a cross between Tim Allen and Rick Astley. That wouldn't have been entirely out of place with the times either. Still, it was his choice, and whether I like the look or not, he had every right to make it. Just like Colin Kaepernick -- I think his hair is absolutely ridiculous, but it's his choice and people should stop giving him grief about it.
Worst I've heard about him that has any evidence whatsoever is "His jewfro was fake, he did it just for TV". Well, lots of people make their TV personas different from their daily life, so I'm perfectly willing to give him a pass on this one. Do actors and actresses deserve scorn for taking an hour or two in the makeup chair before every shoot?
Musk is exhibiting the kind of real-world-driven financial decision-making that got him where he is. He doesn't like having to kill a developing product line, but in recognition of the fact that it was high-risk and a long shot, he decided to fold this hand and the money already in the pot, and try again next hand. There's a huge difference between "I quit" and "I have to stop and re-calculate the route" and he is doing the latter.
They probably started this research while Obama still was president, and besides, they probably liked him. If there's anyone who can use the "fake video" defense now, it's him -- even if it's someone else's work. In that way, they've done him a favor.
The relocation of icons is not really random, it's just not something intuitive. In any case, right-clicking on the desktop and choosing "Sort by" will make short work of it, provided you get used to one of the handful of options presented there. Doing the same sort twice will make it do the sort backward (which could admittedly stand to be explained better by the OS). I personally use "Sort by Item Type", and it's obvious if it does it backward because the Recycl Ebin should be top left if it's correct. As for icons being on something other than the primary display, that is admittedly something Windows simply does not handle well. You're allowed to do it, but you're on your own as far as maintaining it. One thing I would suggest is logging out and then back in once you get it the way you like it. This at least gives you some chance of it coming back to that configuration next startup. I reboot so infrequently that it's not uncommon to lose power or have a BSOD before I have a legitimate shutdown, which causes my preferences to not be saved. Fortunately, it doesn't require a full restart to save them, just a re-log.
"Cyber" is a noun on its own -- it means online (that is, simulated and manually performed) sex. This entered Urban Dictionary over a decade ago, and it wasn't new then. If you think of it this way, it will make blowhard politicos much funnier.
I'm running Windows 10 to the exclusion of all older versions, but one of the very first things I do is put Classic Shell on it. It looks like 10, it has all the under-the-hood workings of 10 (both good and bad), but it still feels like 7.
Windows 10 really does get some things right. Handling display changes is one of them. It's really good at remembering that it has been attached to a particular display before, and how it was configured the last time (including font sizes). It's really good at reverting when that display goes away again. It can deal with a different ClearType setting on each display, and a separate DPI setting as well. It's rather nice to know that I can plug my hacked Chromebook into anything with an HDMI port in this house, and get a usable result straight off because it remembers how I futzed with it before. If I piped audio through HDMI, it remembers that. If I forced it out the headphone jack, it remembers that too. Set it down, plug it in, and it Just Works -- the second time. The first time may still require some tweaking, but at least it remembers it all.
Windows 7 could handle just about any hardware configuration you want, but it's not so good at dealing with changes. It tends to act as if all reconfigurations are "the new normal". Windows 10 tacitly seems to accept that there may not be a single "normal" for a given device.
It doesn't need to perform to broadcast standards to get (relatively crappy) audio picked up by a standard receiver. Dispense with stereo, that'll save you the upper subcarrier. Undermodulate and you should just lose signal-to-noise ratio, and lower volume (on radios lacking automatic gain -- who uses those anymore?).
Wouldn't it just be easier to convince an off-the-shelf Yaesu or Icom that it's actually allowed to transmit between 88 and 108 MHz by fiddling with the ROM? The only reason they won't is because they've been told not to, at the factory. If it can do 6 meters and 2 meters, it'll damn well do the FM broadcast band (with suitable antenna).
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I didn't hear anything about them suspending the sale of RED phones, and BLU and RED are always up to the same shit. It's almost like Spy Vs. Spy or something.
Today's Quote of the Day is very much to the point:
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. -- Dr. Johnson
Here we are: the fix is to introduce electric flying cars. Or hovercrafts, at least.
You know nothing, manu0601. Hovercraft in the UK have a terrible tendency to become filled with eels.
But only as long as most of them do it. If the ad-hoc union gets enough defectors (call them "scabs"), then the surge price will never hit and the scabs will be making money while the good union boys sit logged out.
Some, maybe many, drivers would be fine with this. They don't want to drive unless they will make a certain amount, and often they have other "side gigs" that make more money than non-surge pricing. Since they can't currently demand a certain rate in order to work at all, this is their workaround -- only log in at times they think the surge pricing will be in effect. If I were to drive for Uber or any other such service, that's what I'd be doing. I have better things to do with my time (and the life of my car) than make $5 an hour after expenses.
Something many people may be unaware of, is that black powder weapons are completely uncontrolled. Bullets can't be expensive so long as lead is pennies a pound -- I've cast them myself, it's a really simple procedure -- and cartridges are frequently reloaded. It's a joke, and a reasonably funny one, but it doesn't go much further than that. Even if somehow all existing cartridges could be cleared from circulation to prevent reloading, you'd just see a rise in the ownership of black powder pistols.
Soooo did he manage to do what Dick Tree could not? It would be nice if the summary told me instead of making me RTFA.
He did it, just to be contra Dick Tree.
An SOIC clip and an RPi is the usual way to force-flash firmware on machines that don't want you to.
Eww. Bay Fail, the doughiest of half-baked Intel releases. Sure it's x86-64, but it's still crap. (You may not notice too much running Mint or something like it though.) The only solution that finally solved my Bay Trail problems was to sell it and get a Haswell replacement. I wouldn't in good conscience advise anyone to do anything requiring reliability with a Bay Trail machine.
Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken.
Chicken.
Chicken?
Chicken!
Chicken chicken chicken, chicken. Chicken?
Having to force-load the video chipset driver from Vista caused all sorts of wheel-spinning and video corruption, but it was the only game in town after XP support ended. It was time to get her onto a 64-bit system anyhow, and Core 2 Duo machines are cheap. They weren't quite as cheap when I got it for her, but they were still pretty budget-friendly. I just wish I had known before I bought a 160 GB PATA drive for her old laptop. It only got about two months of use before the machine essentially got retired.
No. Even Windows 7 made it extremely difficult to do that. That is why when XP went out of support, I had little choice but to replace my mother's 9 year old laptop (with i915G chipset)... with a 7 year old laptop that has modern enough features to run just about anything. (The Core 2 Duo was and continues to be a pretty impressive chip.) I pretty much consider this the beginning of the window of machines still worth keeping in service -- x64, SATA II, 4 GB capability. While there's definitely a ceiling to be bumped into, it's still adequate for a lot of purposes.
My "toy" Aspire One has a 945G chipset and has been supported to date, but I can't really be too upset at "toy computers" getting less support from current software. I didn't really expect more than 4 or 5 years of daily driver capability out of it in the first place. The hardware is just too limited. It sits in a lunch cooler bag, getting pulled out for updates a few times a year, because it's just too painful to use for anything else. (That includes Mint, which I did try. I'd rather use a sub-$100 used Chromebook if that's my choice of OS.)
Honestly I don't need the "feature creep" of new versions anyhow. If I need to do something that wasn't included in the prior version of Windows, then I already have software designed to fill that need. The only problem I can see is that incorporating features into the mainline version of Windows can lead to developers abandoning products because their market has been undercut. Those who still need them will be stuck with old versions of both OS and app. I would rather have had the option of continuing with Anniversary on both of my machines, but doing a fresh install for Creators on my desktop turned out to be a blessing anyhow. All sorts of weird little glitches accumulated from years of in-place upgrades got resolved at once.
MS says security patches will continue. If they're good to their word, I don't see any major problems with this other than the aforementioned gutting of third party app support due to a loss of revenue.
Actually, a pompadour (once his preference) made him look like a cross between Tim Allen and Rick Astley. That wouldn't have been entirely out of place with the times either. Still, it was his choice, and whether I like the look or not, he had every right to make it. Just like Colin Kaepernick -- I think his hair is absolutely ridiculous, but it's his choice and people should stop giving him grief about it.
Worst I've heard about him that has any evidence whatsoever is "His jewfro was fake, he did it just for TV". Well, lots of people make their TV personas different from their daily life, so I'm perfectly willing to give him a pass on this one. Do actors and actresses deserve scorn for taking an hour or two in the makeup chair before every shoot?
I suspect Fred Rogers is about as close as you're going to find, and I'd bet at some point in his life even he had a screaming match with somebody.
The current Internet fixation seems to be on Bob Ross. So far, I have yet to hear anything terrible about him.
Musk is exhibiting the kind of real-world-driven financial decision-making that got him where he is. He doesn't like having to kill a developing product line, but in recognition of the fact that it was high-risk and a long shot, he decided to fold this hand and the money already in the pot, and try again next hand. There's a huge difference between "I quit" and "I have to stop and re-calculate the route" and he is doing the latter.
They probably started this research while Obama still was president, and besides, they probably liked him. If there's anyone who can use the "fake video" defense now, it's him -- even if it's someone else's work. In that way, they've done him a favor.
The relocation of icons is not really random, it's just not something intuitive. In any case, right-clicking on the desktop and choosing "Sort by" will make short work of it, provided you get used to one of the handful of options presented there. Doing the same sort twice will make it do the sort backward (which could admittedly stand to be explained better by the OS). I personally use "Sort by Item Type", and it's obvious if it does it backward because the Recycl Ebin should be top left if it's correct. As for icons being on something other than the primary display, that is admittedly something Windows simply does not handle well. You're allowed to do it, but you're on your own as far as maintaining it. One thing I would suggest is logging out and then back in once you get it the way you like it. This at least gives you some chance of it coming back to that configuration next startup. I reboot so infrequently that it's not uncommon to lose power or have a BSOD before I have a legitimate shutdown, which causes my preferences to not be saved. Fortunately, it doesn't require a full restart to save them, just a re-log.
"Cyber" is a noun on its own -- it means online (that is, simulated and manually performed) sex. This entered Urban Dictionary over a decade ago, and it wasn't new then. If you think of it this way, it will make blowhard politicos much funnier.
So you're the one who wrote that ÆØÅ "Size Matters" song. Sorry, you deserve it just for that. /s
I'm running Windows 10 to the exclusion of all older versions, but one of the very first things I do is put Classic Shell on it. It looks like 10, it has all the under-the-hood workings of 10 (both good and bad), but it still feels like 7.
Windows 10 really does get some things right. Handling display changes is one of them. It's really good at remembering that it has been attached to a particular display before, and how it was configured the last time (including font sizes). It's really good at reverting when that display goes away again. It can deal with a different ClearType setting on each display, and a separate DPI setting as well. It's rather nice to know that I can plug my hacked Chromebook into anything with an HDMI port in this house, and get a usable result straight off because it remembers how I futzed with it before. If I piped audio through HDMI, it remembers that. If I forced it out the headphone jack, it remembers that too. Set it down, plug it in, and it Just Works -- the second time. The first time may still require some tweaking, but at least it remembers it all.
Windows 7 could handle just about any hardware configuration you want, but it's not so good at dealing with changes. It tends to act as if all reconfigurations are "the new normal". Windows 10 tacitly seems to accept that there may not be a single "normal" for a given device.
It doesn't need to perform to broadcast standards to get (relatively crappy) audio picked up by a standard receiver. Dispense with stereo, that'll save you the upper subcarrier. Undermodulate and you should just lose signal-to-noise ratio, and lower volume (on radios lacking automatic gain -- who uses those anymore?).
Wouldn't it just be easier to convince an off-the-shelf Yaesu or Icom that it's actually allowed to transmit between 88 and 108 MHz by fiddling with the ROM? The only reason they won't is because they've been told not to, at the factory. If it can do 6 meters and 2 meters, it'll damn well do the FM broadcast band (with suitable antenna).
Since when has Japan been about fairness?