For one thing, the Windows 10 Start Menu doesn't allow for program subfolders.
For example, if you had something like a "Microsoft Office" group, containing the key applications at the top level, but the lesser used utilities in a subfolder "Microsoft Office Tools", all of that nice structure is gone. It just throws all of the program icons into the single folder allowed per application.
Microsoft's answer is, apparently, to redesign the application so it doesn't use the Start Menu for program links. But what happens when you have an application that was designed for Windows 7, which has a perfectly functional Start menu, that supports subfolders? It is just a horrid mess.
And what possible reason is there for this limitation? Oh yeah: it is because Windows 8 was designed for tablets, not computers, hence the whole "metro" interface. For some reason Microsoft didn't bother to fix the Metro-emphasis in Windows 10, so we're stuck with limitations that make no sense.
It is the same as in any Google query: you can enter a number of search terms that you think may be in the result, but they don't all have to be. (Compare this to AltaVista, where every term was mandatory.)
All we're doing here is the same concept with one or more phrases. For example, maybe I want to find pages with "red team", "penetration test", or "white hat" (perhaps along with other terms), but I don't require the hit to have all three phrases. And I don't want to get returned every page that talks about the red hats or white teams or hat tests or whatever.
The point was this was all very simple before Google+ decided that a plus sign should link to a service that no-one uses.
That's what Google said when people first complained about the usurping of the "+" operator.
At that time, there was a clear difference: Quoting a term was used to indicate that the phrase must be as is. "Search syntax" would get a hit on that exact phrase, not just any result that included the words search and syntax somewhere. But it did not mean that the phrase was required.
Between then and now they may have changed it so that a quoted phrase is a required term. But if so, then how do you indicate that a phrase must be as-is, but is not a required phrase?
Customers: "Agile is great, because now we can change requirements whenever we like, and don't even need to think of what we really need in the beginning.
Exactly. From what I've experienced, Agile is just an excuse to not think about requirements until it is too late.
"I can't think of a single compelling reason to upgrade [to iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus] from an iPhone 7 [which was launched last year]," wrote Nilay Patel of The Verge.
Of course there's little reason to upgrade from last year's iPhone 7. The question is whether there is a reason to upgrade from a 2 year old iPhone 6s or a 3 year old iPhone 6.
The answer is No, because the iPhone 8 doesn't have a headphone jack.
The "Details" link was replaced by a "Learn more" link, which leads to a less than useful Chrome Help page. That page lets you submit a comment as to how helpful the page is. If the "Learn more" link is not helpful in viewing the security certificate, we should leave a comment to tell them that.
The point is that Apple's argument for going all USB-C on the MBP is that USB-C is the future, and the fact that USB-A is ubiquitous today is not a valid excuse. The MBP team is expecting the entire rest of the world to abandon USB-A and switch to USB-C right now.
But this is undercut by the iPhone team. If Apple truly believed that USB-C was the way to go then the iPhone would have an USB-C connector. It doesn't, because the iPhone team is recognizing that it is premature to abandon a ubiquitous standard.
So if Apple doesn't have the courage of their own convictions, why should the rest of the industry behave any differently?
I was suggesting a (somewhat) simplistic compromise. Consumer can record to a device to watch later - but if said device has an option to upload/share with friends - then those shows with the flag set couldn't be shared.
Which is pretty close to what ReplayTV DVRs did (and still do).
On the ReplayTV you can send a show to another ReplayTV, but it won't let you send a show that your machine received from another machine.
That didn't stop ReplayTV from being sued, but I think that was more about the automatic commercial skip feature, not the show sending.
(Speaking of commercial skip, ReplayTVs have a secret feature that will be useful on Sunday: you can set it to automatically skip over the show content and only show the commercials.)
As far as patents go, TiVo and ReplayTV introduced DVRs at the same time, so between them they held the fundamental DVR patents. TiVo and ReplayTV had an agreement that they wouldn't sue each other.
In 2007 DirectTV bought the assets of ReplayTV, presumably to get the patent portfolio, just so that they could offer a TVR without being sued by TiVo.
Sir, your solution is well intended but is of limited effectiveness because it is a broad spectrum cure.
I have invented a more effective protocol, where first I test the subject by exposing them to small amounts of various types of electromagnetic signals. The basic Wi-Fi test discriminates between sensitivity to 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac. The premium test will also test sensitivity to various forms of Wi-Fi encryption, channel numbers, jumbo frames, IPsec VPNs, hidden station ids, RADIUS authentication, Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense, and captive portals.
Once the test is complete, I can expose the water bottles to the precise, tailored anti-rad treatment for the individual subject. All for the low price of only $500 for the initial basic test and then $50 per treatment. (A treatment course usually runs for 100 weeks, and then monthly maintenance doses for life.)
No, not the same thing (though similar in purpose). A shortcut is a file whose content is parsed by the software/OS to determine the location of the target, while a symbolic/soft link is a filesystem object that points to target.
Ah, so Windows 95 shortcuts weren't copying Unix, it was copying Mac OS aliases. Which were introduced in System 7, in 1991.
Except that aliases still worked even if the target was renamed or moved to a different location, while shortcuts break.
As far as I can recall, tape backup systems have never been a consumer product. At least, I don't recall tape systems ever being marketed that way
QIC, Travan, Iomega Ditto, and DDS (DAT) tape drives were all marketed as consumer products in the 1990's.
In 2000 a DDS-2 tape cost $4.47, with a capacity of 8 GB (compressed): 56 cents per gigabyte. A 9.1 GB SCSI hard drive cost $385: $4.23 per gigabyte. Reusable optical media was not cost effective, and there wasn't anything else (that I can remember) with both high capacity and low cost.
(QIC and Travan drives were cheap, but the tapes were expensive; around $30 per tape IIRC. DDS tapes were cheap, but the drives were expensive; $700 for a DDS-2 drive in 1997.)
Yeah, but remember that inline statements didn't come until the addition of explicit scope delimiters. The most common form actually is: perform routine-name
until condition
and in that case, the UNTIL really does come at the end. But it still is really a PERFORM... WHILE.
The fact is that this trips up programmers. They forget that they need to init the condition before the PEFORM, lest it never execute.
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For one thing, the Windows 10 Start Menu doesn't allow for program subfolders.
For example, if you had something like a "Microsoft Office" group, containing the key applications at the top level, but the lesser used utilities in a subfolder "Microsoft Office Tools", all of that nice structure is gone. It just throws all of the program icons into the single folder allowed per application.
Microsoft's answer is, apparently, to redesign the application so it doesn't use the Start Menu for program links. But what happens when you have an application that was designed for Windows 7, which has a perfectly functional Start menu, that supports subfolders? It is just a horrid mess.
And what possible reason is there for this limitation? Oh yeah: it is because Windows 8 was designed for tablets, not computers, hence the whole "metro" interface. For some reason Microsoft didn't bother to fix the Metro-emphasis in Windows 10, so we're stuck with limitations that make no sense.
It is the same as in any Google query: you can enter a number of search terms that you think may be in the result, but they don't all have to be. (Compare this to AltaVista, where every term was mandatory.)
All we're doing here is the same concept with one or more phrases. For example, maybe I want to find pages with "red team", "penetration test", or "white hat" (perhaps along with other terms), but I don't require the hit to have all three phrases. And I don't want to get returned every page that talks about the red hats or white teams or hat tests or whatever.
The point was this was all very simple before Google+ decided that a plus sign should link to a service that no-one uses.
That's what Google said when people first complained about the usurping of the "+" operator.
At that time, there was a clear difference: Quoting a term was used to indicate that the phrase must be as is. "Search syntax" would get a hit on that exact phrase, not just any result that included the words search and syntax somewhere. But it did not mean that the phrase was required.
Between then and now they may have changed it so that a quoted phrase is a required term. But if so, then how do you indicate that a phrase must be as-is, but is not a required phrase?
If Google is closing down Google+, can we have the "+' operator back in the Google Search syntax? It used to indicate a required search term.
Customers: "Agile is great, because now we can change requirements whenever we like, and don't even need to think of what we really need in the beginning.
Exactly. From what I've experienced, Agile is just an excuse to not think about requirements until it is too late.
Customer: I want a house...
Development team designs and builds a house.
Customer: ...that I can drive to the lake.
"I can't think of a single compelling reason to upgrade [to iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus] from an iPhone 7 [which was launched last year]," wrote Nilay Patel of The Verge.
Of course there's little reason to upgrade from last year's iPhone 7. The question is whether there is a reason to upgrade from a 2 year old iPhone 6s or a 3 year old iPhone 6.
The answer is No, because the iPhone 8 doesn't have a headphone jack.
Because every change breaks someone's workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/
The "Details" link was replaced by a "Learn more" link, which leads to a less than useful Chrome Help page. That page lets you submit a comment as to how helpful the page is. If the "Learn more" link is not helpful in viewing the security certificate, we should leave a comment to tell them that.
I meant to type "And yet if I buy...".
The point is that Apple's argument for going all USB-C on the MBP is that USB-C is the future, and the fact that USB-A is ubiquitous today is not a valid excuse. The MBP team is expecting the entire rest of the world to abandon USB-A and switch to USB-C right now.
But this is undercut by the iPhone team. If Apple truly believed that USB-C was the way to go then the iPhone would have an USB-C connector. It doesn't, because the iPhone team is recognizing that it is premature to abandon a ubiquitous standard.
So if Apple doesn't have the courage of their own convictions, why should the rest of the industry behave any differently?
And if I buy a brand new iphone, the sync cable has USB-A. Cowards.
So I don't have to buy and connect a media center computer, streaming DVR, smartphone with HDMI, or Raspberry Pi to my TV just to stream shows.
https://xkcd.com/1447/
I was suggesting a (somewhat) simplistic compromise. Consumer can record to a device to watch later - but if said device has an option to upload/share with friends - then those shows with the flag set couldn't be shared.
Which is pretty close to what ReplayTV DVRs did (and still do).
On the ReplayTV you can send a show to another ReplayTV, but it won't let you send a show that your machine received from another machine.
That didn't stop ReplayTV from being sued, but I think that was more about the automatic commercial skip feature, not the show sending.
(Speaking of commercial skip, ReplayTVs have a secret feature that will be useful on Sunday: you can set it to automatically skip over the show content and only show the commercials.)
As far as patents go, TiVo and ReplayTV introduced DVRs at the same time, so between them they held the fundamental DVR patents. TiVo and ReplayTV had an agreement that they wouldn't sue each other.
In 2007 DirectTV bought the assets of ReplayTV, presumably to get the patent portfolio, just so that they could offer a TVR without being sued by TiVo.
Sir, your solution is well intended but is of limited effectiveness because it is a broad spectrum cure.
I have invented a more effective protocol, where first I test the subject by exposing them to small amounts of various types of electromagnetic signals. The basic Wi-Fi test discriminates between sensitivity to 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.11ac. The premium test will also test sensitivity to various forms of Wi-Fi encryption, channel numbers, jumbo frames, IPsec VPNs, hidden station ids, RADIUS authentication, Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense, and captive portals.
Once the test is complete, I can expose the water bottles to the precise, tailored anti-rad treatment for the individual subject. All for the low price of only $500 for the initial basic test and then $50 per treatment. (A treatment course usually runs for 100 weeks, and then monthly maintenance doses for life.)
I'll buy an OLED TV when you sell it without the useless curved screen gimmick.
True for Mozilla, but not for Google. It has a Google updater that runs independently of Chrome and other Google apps.
The reason non-admin users can update on Windows is that Google subverts the security model by installing applications into the user's profile.
The whole issue is based on ethics of business. If they are willing to cheat the emissions, what else are they willing to cheat?
Engine sound.
You need to download the free product.
Bitdefender.com > Home Users > Toolbox > Free Antivirus leads to Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition.
Now that Google+ is being deprecated, can we please have the + search operator back, to indicate a +required_term in the search results?
No, not the same thing (though similar in purpose). A shortcut is a file whose content is parsed by the software/OS to determine the location of the target, while a symbolic/soft link is a filesystem object that points to target.
Ah, so Windows 95 shortcuts weren't copying Unix, it was copying Mac OS aliases. Which were introduced in System 7, in 1991. Except that aliases still worked even if the target was renamed or moved to a different location, while shortcuts break.
Probably the same as who decided that Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is a "critical" update.
As far as I can recall, tape backup systems have never been a consumer product. At least, I don't recall tape systems ever being marketed that way
QIC, Travan, Iomega Ditto, and DDS (DAT) tape drives were all marketed as consumer products in the 1990's.
In 2000 a DDS-2 tape cost $4.47, with a capacity of 8 GB (compressed): 56 cents per gigabyte. A 9.1 GB SCSI hard drive cost $385: $4.23 per gigabyte. Reusable optical media was not cost effective, and there wasn't anything else (that I can remember) with both high capacity and low cost.
(QIC and Travan drives were cheap, but the tapes were expensive; around $30 per tape IIRC. DDS tapes were cheap, but the drives were expensive; $700 for a DDS-2 drive in 1997.)
TaxAct (download) doesn't support OS X.
Yeah, but remember that inline statements didn't come until the addition of explicit scope delimiters. The most common form actually is:
... WHILE.
perform routine-name
until condition
and in that case, the UNTIL really does come at the end. But it still is really a PERFORM
The fact is that this trips up programmers. They forget that they need to init the condition before the PEFORM, lest it never execute.