Surprisingly, Windows 7 Home and 8 are both able to install and run IIS; unsure of what, if any, differences in limitations exist between them and pro.
Same here, an unofficial build running on an Amazon Firephone. I somehow never managed to notice that Humble does mobile stuff too, that's pretty neat.
It hasn't required flash player for a little while now; HTML 5 is possible. "livestreamer" is also a thing, which allows viewing of twitch and other sources in VLC
I was perhaps too ranty there. On several lower-end machines, I've seen Office suffer terribly until both animations and hardware acceleration are turned off. It would be nice if it benchmarked itself during setup to see if there was actually something to gain from it. After moving to a much faster laptop (i7-2670qm vs A6-6310, and their respective integrated graphics devices), I see no continuing issues that aren't just caused by some broken spreadsheets. Not sure how the truly latest version of Office performs, as I'm stuck using Office 2013 via Office365 at work. I'll shush now.
All current office products (2013) seem to be designed to be horrendously slow. Excel suffers most terribly from all the graphical bloat. Even after disabling the "animations" and "hardware acceleration", it's still a barely-responsive lump on anything that isn't a top-notch workstation/gaming PC. No amount of tweaking seems to be able to fix it, leading me to believe that it is broken by design. Whoever thought that flashy animations should be enabled in a "productivity" suite by default should be condemned to an appropriate level of hell. The lack of benefit from hardware acceleration on low to mid-range hardware (trivial even on higher end stuff) should call into question the competence of many involved.
(insert possible vague allusion to saving humanity (or at least an economy) with video games, a la Ender's Game) Furthermore, your name. In loving memory of a better time.
I envision a future in which the pillars are made effectively transparent by way of some fancy sciencey stuff that was probably mentioned on this site back when it was cool to post news for nerds. Seriously though, a periscope of sorts shouldn't be impossible to come up with; I see no need for anything electronic. Visual distortion within some reasonable bounds seems acceptable as well. The main thing is that the ability to exercise our binocular depth perception be possible. I don't even like the stupid window sticker(s) states force people to display for registration/inspection; the less crap up at that height the better. In Texas, this is finally being reduced to one sticker. Reassuring, perhaps, that Texas gets a little bit less backwards every now and again.
Suppose you doze off/are distracted/something something and drift against a curved dividing wall at highway speed. This event can be somewhat violent, and you could be displaced from your seat. You then stand a chance to become an uncontrolled mass veering in the direction opposite of the wall. I guarantee (and can attest from my own experiences) that someone wearing their seatbelt in such a circumstance would have a vastly greater chance of regaining control of the vehicle before a second collision occurred. It only takes thinking one single extra step ahead to see why seatbelts are not unwise.
You are not the only one that stands to be harmed from not wearing one; the (unspoken, but seemingly implied) logic behind your notion being reasonable is fallacious or non-existent. Other such fun that can put you out of your seat, or cause unintentional control inputs to the accelerator pedal, brakes, steering, gear shifter,etc.:
Being rear-ended under any circumstance
Departing the roadway onto a rough shoulder or ditch
Speed humps
Dips, for traffic control or due to road degradation
Actions of an unruly or malicious passenger
Abrupt changes in road grade
Striking a cow, moose, elk, exceptionally large deer, horse, gorilla, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, refrigerator, jacuzzi, pallet of canned goods, motorcycle, small aircraft, etc.
Running over any of the following, in anything save for the heftiest of vehicles:
A wheel/tire assembly laying in the middle of the road
4x4, 4x6, etc. and larger lumber
Logs, other natural debris
Driving over a curb
The remains of a previously destroyed cow, moose, elk, exceptionally large deer, horse, gorilla, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, refrigerator, jacuzzi, pallet of canned goods, motorcycle, small aircraft, etc.
Pretty much anything thicker than a few inches, and not physically compliant
This "why can't i drive without a seatbelt" crap needs to vanish along with the turds that find it acceptable to plow through stop signs without so much as a tap on the brakes.
The same applies to motorcycles, to a lesser extent; in the scenarios I could come up with, all revolve around being suddenly blinded by debris or various other unfortunate interactions between your head and foreign objects. It's fortunate, I suppose, that the casualties your arrogant asshattery can cause (under any reasonable circumstance) are far lower than what a larger machine can do. Sounds like a bicycle might be a safer bet for these sorts. Better still, just walk. Every bit of stress experienced by people that get fined under these laws is well deserved.
The only time I've had issues with ABS (in dry weather) is in moderate braking while going over an abrupt change in road height (e.g. misaligned expansion joints on a bridge). The effects of the ABS system having activated are present for a potentially unnerving time after it activates, and I've had to pump the pedal to avoid hitting the person in front of me.
Don't forget that IBM had a decent 3840x2400 22" IPS panel in production as early as 2001. It was rather expensive, and had to be driven as multiple sub-panels. It also had a very low refresh rate compared to what one would find normal today. Seems like mentioning numbers with more than two digits causes consumers' eyes to glaze over, hence '4K' as a blanket term for stuff with roughly 4000 pixels in width.
...with only a few extra vertical lines over ancient 1280x1024 panels, and not greatly superior 4:3 CRTs capable of doing 1280x960. But, good luck finding good deals on monitors that aren't 1920x1080 or some smaller widescreen resolution. At the place I used to work, it got to the point where I needed to view so much information (server monitoring at a webhost) at one time that even dual widescreen monitors were not an efficient solution in landscape orientation. So I brought my own monitor stands (Dell laptop docking station bases, actually, with rotating VESA plate) and some thumbscrews almost every day for a considerable length of time, and even had management approval to do so. People thought it was weird, but being able to see several hundred lines of text at once can be very useful, and only took about 2 minutes to set up. The only 'disadvantage' I can see in it is that the light coming out of LCD is not aligned or polarized ideally for the orientation, so color/brightness response is badly broken (this doesn't likely matter much if you're just reading informational text), and (in my case) start seeing fine horizontal lines (due to the now horizontal pixels) into your vision after long viewing sessions (this goes away after a bit, and did not really bother me). Widescreen monitors have little practical advantage over, say, 1600x1200 panels in a business usage context; I have a suspicion that they were pushed by the industry as they'd be cheaper to make. Even though 1920x1080 screen size gives more total pixels than 1600x1200 by around 10%, I gain much more utility from the extra 120 lines in the latter than the 320 extra pixels of width.
... that IBM had a '4K' (I abhor this term as much as 'HD') monitor in production from 2001-2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...... 3840x2400 in a ~22 inch panel. Good luck finding a "4K" monitor of that resolution (~204 ppi) any time soon.
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Surprisingly, Windows 7 Home and 8 are both able to install and run IIS; unsure of what, if any, differences in limitations exist between them and pro.
So now, I can spam calls all I want, so long as it's under a broadly political pretense?
Same here, an unofficial build running on an Amazon Firephone. I somehow never managed to notice that Humble does mobile stuff too, that's pretty neat.
systemd is modular? News to me...
What fraction of these are even run by humans? WordPress is an extremely popular platform for people spam-blogging for SEO reasons.
It hasn't required flash player for a little while now; HTML 5 is possible. "livestreamer" is also a thing, which allows viewing of twitch and other sources in VLC
I was perhaps too ranty there. On several lower-end machines, I've seen Office suffer terribly until both animations and hardware acceleration are turned off. It would be nice if it benchmarked itself during setup to see if there was actually something to gain from it. After moving to a much faster laptop (i7-2670qm vs A6-6310, and their respective integrated graphics devices), I see no continuing issues that aren't just caused by some broken spreadsheets. Not sure how the truly latest version of Office performs, as I'm stuck using Office 2013 via Office365 at work. I'll shush now.
If our comments weigh a pound a piece, are we safe to fly now? http://puu.sh/kxOjL/0fb5958d2f...
All current office products (2013) seem to be designed to be horrendously slow. Excel suffers most terribly from all the graphical bloat. Even after disabling the "animations" and "hardware acceleration", it's still a barely-responsive lump on anything that isn't a top-notch workstation/gaming PC. No amount of tweaking seems to be able to fix it, leading me to believe that it is broken by design. Whoever thought that flashy animations should be enabled in a "productivity" suite by default should be condemned to an appropriate level of hell. The lack of benefit from hardware acceleration on low to mid-range hardware (trivial even on higher end stuff) should call into question the competence of many involved.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT! (quietly) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
(insert possible vague allusion to saving humanity (or at least an economy) with video games, a la Ender's Game) Furthermore, your name. In loving memory of a better time.
I envision a future in which the pillars are made effectively transparent by way of some fancy sciencey stuff that was probably mentioned on this site back when it was cool to post news for nerds. Seriously though, a periscope of sorts shouldn't be impossible to come up with; I see no need for anything electronic. Visual distortion within some reasonable bounds seems acceptable as well. The main thing is that the ability to exercise our binocular depth perception be possible. I don't even like the stupid window sticker(s) states force people to display for registration/inspection; the less crap up at that height the better. In Texas, this is finally being reduced to one sticker. Reassuring, perhaps, that Texas gets a little bit less backwards every now and again.
Suppose you doze off/are distracted/something something and drift against a curved dividing wall at highway speed. This event can be somewhat violent, and you could be displaced from your seat. You then stand a chance to become an uncontrolled mass veering in the direction opposite of the wall. I guarantee (and can attest from my own experiences) that someone wearing their seatbelt in such a circumstance would have a vastly greater chance of regaining control of the vehicle before a second collision occurred. It only takes thinking one single extra step ahead to see why seatbelts are not unwise.
You are not the only one that stands to be harmed from not wearing one; the (unspoken, but seemingly implied) logic behind your notion being reasonable is fallacious or non-existent. Other such fun that can put you out of your seat, or cause unintentional control inputs to the accelerator pedal, brakes, steering, gear shifter,etc.:
Being rear-ended under any circumstance
Departing the roadway onto a rough shoulder or ditch
Speed humps
Dips, for traffic control or due to road degradation
Actions of an unruly or malicious passenger
Abrupt changes in road grade
Striking a cow, moose, elk, exceptionally large deer, horse, gorilla, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, refrigerator, jacuzzi, pallet of canned goods, motorcycle, small aircraft, etc.
Running over any of the following, in anything save for the heftiest of vehicles:
A wheel/tire assembly laying in the middle of the road
4x4, 4x6, etc. and larger lumber
Logs, other natural debris
Driving over a curb
The remains of a previously destroyed cow, moose, elk, exceptionally large deer, horse, gorilla, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, refrigerator, jacuzzi, pallet of canned goods, motorcycle, small aircraft, etc.
Pretty much anything thicker than a few inches, and not physically compliant
This "why can't i drive without a seatbelt" crap needs to vanish along with the turds that find it acceptable to plow through stop signs without so much as a tap on the brakes.
The same applies to motorcycles, to a lesser extent; in the scenarios I could come up with, all revolve around being suddenly blinded by debris or various other unfortunate interactions between your head and foreign objects. It's fortunate, I suppose, that the casualties your arrogant asshattery can cause (under any reasonable circumstance) are far lower than what a larger machine can do. Sounds like a bicycle might be a safer bet for these sorts. Better still, just walk. Every bit of stress experienced by people that get fined under these laws is well deserved.
In all of the vehicles I've owned, I've successfully deactivated the ABS system by pulling the fuse. For testing purposes, obviously.
The only time I've had issues with ABS (in dry weather) is in moderate braking while going over an abrupt change in road height (e.g. misaligned expansion joints on a bridge). The effects of the ABS system having activated are present for a potentially unnerving time after it activates, and I've had to pump the pedal to avoid hitting the person in front of me.
Wish I had mod points at the moment, as I had come to say something very similar.
As contentious as it may be, and 'Ignorance' tag seems like it would be all too fitting.
Nomination for best of AC mouth(keyboard?)-farts.
My mod points expired or I'd fix the bad score...
... but I'm pretty sure that mindless packet floods still aren't 'hacking'.
Don't forget that IBM had a decent 3840x2400 22" IPS panel in production as early as 2001. It was rather expensive, and had to be driven as multiple sub-panels. It also had a very low refresh rate compared to what one would find normal today. Seems like mentioning numbers with more than two digits causes consumers' eyes to glaze over, hence '4K' as a blanket term for stuff with roughly 4000 pixels in width.
...with only a few extra vertical lines over ancient 1280x1024 panels, and not greatly superior 4:3 CRTs capable of doing 1280x960. But, good luck finding good deals on monitors that aren't 1920x1080 or some smaller widescreen resolution. At the place I used to work, it got to the point where I needed to view so much information (server monitoring at a webhost) at one time that even dual widescreen monitors were not an efficient solution in landscape orientation. So I brought my own monitor stands (Dell laptop docking station bases, actually, with rotating VESA plate) and some thumbscrews almost every day for a considerable length of time, and even had management approval to do so. People thought it was weird, but being able to see several hundred lines of text at once can be very useful, and only took about 2 minutes to set up. The only 'disadvantage' I can see in it is that the light coming out of LCD is not aligned or polarized ideally for the orientation, so color/brightness response is badly broken (this doesn't likely matter much if you're just reading informational text), and (in my case) start seeing fine horizontal lines (due to the now horizontal pixels) into your vision after long viewing sessions (this goes away after a bit, and did not really bother me). Widescreen monitors have little practical advantage over, say, 1600x1200 panels in a business usage context; I have a suspicion that they were pushed by the industry as they'd be cheaper to make. Even though 1920x1080 screen size gives more total pixels than 1600x1200 by around 10%, I gain much more utility from the extra 120 lines in the latter than the 320 extra pixels of width.
it's just a simple 'a' tag...
I make that mistake from time to time, probably due to 3840x2160
... that IBM had a '4K' (I abhor this term as much as 'HD') monitor in production from 2001-2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ... 3840x2400 in a ~22 inch panel. Good luck finding a "4K" monitor of that resolution (~204 ppi) any time soon.