Set a few dozen people loose on machines with MS Win10 on them and you'll find that "pretty solid" is a rare description of the thing. You have been not just lucky but also helped by the very conservative choice of hardware that is emulated by virtual machines. The device drivers all work for you. For other people on real hardware, sometimes not so well at the moment.
Skills? It's MS Windows, Fischer Price Central, of course he's got the skills. Do you really think you are something special because you can move a pointer and click when you see a picture? Just about everyone else can do that too, but the above poster has a good point that if you follow something other than the main tested path with MS Windows the chances of a fuckup are very high.
Yes, but since pure zone refined silicon wafers were stupidly expensive and still are not that cheap the density is almost directly proportional to cost. So the rule of thumb about increasing density was for the purpose of economy.
That's not going to be the number because each junction is more than a single atom. Around 1998 a guy in a university lab I worked at made a diode out of a single atomic layer of gallium arsenide on a silicon substrate, and he was nowhere near the first, but making a lot of junctions in the right places is a hell of a lot harder than putting a very thin coating on something.
My Xmas present to my parents - remove that piece of shit MS Windows 10 off their laptop and restore MS Windows 7 on it.
The utterly braindead MS Windows 10 installer decided to run itself on an i3 machine with 2GB of memory. That made the machine totally unusable despite Firefox and Skype being the only programs used.
Changing it to MS Win7 gave it a usable interface that doesn't change or put ads in your face. Putting in 8GB of memory did the rest.
Shea thinks that Detroit will turn around in the next five years or so.
Probably true, but I was using Detroit as a very obvious (and interesting) example that everyone has heard of and not treating it as unique. I expect that a lot of other cities and entire states are going to end up like that and if you are in one of those places property isn't going to be worth much. Although I almost never agree with those people that say "government in the problem" the Detroit situation seemed to be that somewhat insane fragmentation of governance and local governments working at cross purposes messed that place up. When other tiny local governments offered sweeteners for industry to move that resulted in industry moving away (to places like Flint) then moving away again to another place offering a sweetener. That left the tiny local governments with not much of a revenue base so they desperately tried different quick fixes - high taxes, casino, RenCen, monorail monorail monorail!
All that is fair enough and not even against this French law.
This law and similar ones are for those situations where people were informed when they started a job that it was 9-5 without being on call, but now they are expected to be on call for no extra pay and without ever agreeing to be on call. It's not there to punish employers who where honest up front. It's about those who decide to change employment conditions without consent and get some free extra work out of their employees. From looking at this there's no idiocy of "hire extra people to cover a few hours annually" because your employees have already agreed to extra work if required.
Funny thing is I saw "Star Wars" as a double feature with "Royal Flash" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flash_(film)] so that would have fit perfectly. Imagine "Prisoner of Zenda" with a lot more sex.
Apparently "Royal Flash" was released in 1975, but small town cinemas get whatever they can get whenever it comes I suppose.
Really, the sound bites of the anti-gun hysterics are just silly
Personally I think the majority of the "3D printed gun" (oh, not the gun, just the receiver - what a misdirecting loser) hype has been attention seeking that depended upon those hysterics.
Hobby lathes and mills with CNC are now as cheap or cheaper than a 3D printer so you can make a real gun these days without a lot of outlay of time or cash. There used to be a huge hobby gunsmith scene that was perfectly legal. I've been out of touch on that topic for a couple of decades (I worked with some guys into historical black powder stuff) but I'd bet it's still around and that instructions on how to build decent guns are probably just as available as they used to be.
Indeed, but that dollar value speculation depends on China, Russia, Korea, Japan and Europe sitting still.
bandits in the real estate market
That's typically where the biggest bubbles burst when economies crash but you could be lucky. How much is a house in Detroit worth these days? What did it used to be worth? If there is very little economic activity in an area real estate is not so safe as it looks when things are booming.
except you are apparently too weak psychologically to handle reality
WTF?
The "reality" we are discussing here is very simple. Names, dates and details have not been disclosed to us. I really don't get why you need to get insulting about it, and why you need to pretend you have more control over those other people than the zero which is reality.
You don't get it. It's currently not about my view or yours. We are not considered worth informing on topics such as this. My act of pointing that out is most definitely not an act of condoning such undemocratic secrecy and it is somewhat more than insulting that you are suggesting that I have a view that the citizens are there to serve government.
Understanding that there is a problem is a necessary step to take before solving it, and stating that there is a problem should not be taken as agreeing that things should stay like that.
One thing that the Lumia line had was a wide range of choices and price points
It's because they were descended from Nokia stuff where they had what looked like an insanely huge number of models, until you get that it does scale when you are selling millions of phones per year. Microsoft were not selling in such volumes so that made the cost of supporting multiple models something to be noticed. They killed Nokia and are wearing it's skin, but they are no Nokia.
would integrate seamlessly w/ Exchange server, and you get office pre-installed on the phone
The Nokia N900 had that with it's mail client and "docs to go", as did probably a few other non-MS phones. It sold a few but not the numbers that MS seem to be looking for so I don't think it's that much of a "killer feature".
The inflation that has not happened yet because the economy has not yet really gone to shit (and hopefully will never get that bad). There's plenty of examples with Zimbabwe being a very recent one. In Zimbabwe the escape hatch was a foreign currency. With China people worried about a currency crash are buying up property in other countries as their escape hatch. Gold was a way out once but the gold price varies so much over time (it may crash along with the dollar), as well as there being tight controls on gold almost everywhere. A stash of cash might help since the US dollar isn't just used in the USA, but in other places it's just ended up as worthless paper when an economy crashes. I'm not in the USA and some economists are predicting a 50% drop in currency value here if a few things happen with local interest rates versus others overseas. A stash of cash doesn't sound so good in that situation and other places have had it a lot worse.
I don't know, and that's another issue anyway. Whether minors are arrested for prostitution in that area or not the law in a lot of cases looks down on people who pay minors for sex, or even attempt such a transaction. Consider all those FBI stings with fake minors that the internet is infamous for. Even where prostitution is legal I can't see this going well for a guy who really was fucking minors after offering them a job and/or money (and IMHO that's how it should be, if guilty of that lock him up).
Now that is optimism. Nobody has officially admitted yet that Saddam didn't have WMDs and that the "intelligence" was collated by a PR agency, that stuff leaked out unofficially. Nobody has admitted they never had any. This situation is a lot harder to prove. With Saddam journalists had found out that Saddam had killed off the people who were working on his WMD projects in frustration with a lack of progress so the information was already in the public domain.
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MS Win7 or MS "server".
Set a few dozen people loose on machines with MS Win10 on them and you'll find that "pretty solid" is a rare description of the thing.
You have been not just lucky but also helped by the very conservative choice of hardware that is emulated by virtual machines.
The device drivers all work for you.
For other people on real hardware, sometimes not so well at the moment.
Skills? It's MS Windows, Fischer Price Central, of course he's got the skills. Do you really think you are something special because you can move a pointer and click when you see a picture? Just about everyone else can do that too, but the above poster has a good point that if you follow something other than the main tested path with MS Windows the chances of a fuckup are very high.
Yes, but since pure zone refined silicon wafers were stupidly expensive and still are not that cheap the density is almost directly proportional to cost.
So the rule of thumb about increasing density was for the purpose of economy.
That's not going to be the number because each junction is more than a single atom.
Around 1998 a guy in a university lab I worked at made a diode out of a single atomic layer of gallium arsenide on a silicon substrate, and he was nowhere near the first, but making a lot of junctions in the right places is a hell of a lot harder than putting a very thin coating on something.
No you can't. One is physics and the other was a guy called Moore setting a long term goal.
My Xmas present to my parents - remove that piece of shit MS Windows 10 off their laptop and restore MS Windows 7 on it.
The utterly braindead MS Windows 10 installer decided to run itself on an i3 machine with 2GB of memory. That made the machine totally unusable despite Firefox and Skype being the only programs used.
Changing it to MS Win7 gave it a usable interface that doesn't change or put ads in your face. Putting in 8GB of memory did the rest.
Probably true, but I was using Detroit as a very obvious (and interesting) example that everyone has heard of and not treating it as unique. I expect that a lot of other cities and entire states are going to end up like that and if you are in one of those places property isn't going to be worth much.
Although I almost never agree with those people that say "government in the problem" the Detroit situation seemed to be that somewhat insane fragmentation of governance and local governments working at cross purposes messed that place up. When other tiny local governments offered sweeteners for industry to move that resulted in industry moving away (to places like Flint) then moving away again to another place offering a sweetener. That left the tiny local governments with not much of a revenue base so they desperately tried different quick fixes - high taxes, casino, RenCen, monorail monorail monorail!
It's for those things like people getting fired for not answering an email on a Saturday night.
All that is fair enough and not even against this French law.
This law and similar ones are for those situations where people were informed when they started a job that it was 9-5 without being on call, but now they are expected to be on call for no extra pay and without ever agreeing to be on call.
It's not there to punish employers who where honest up front. It's about those who decide to change employment conditions without consent and get some free extra work out of their employees. From looking at this there's no idiocy of "hire extra people to cover a few hours annually" because your employees have already agreed to extra work if required.
There are still a few places that do that.
The "Everest" documentary shot on 70mm wasn't all that long ago.
Funny thing is I saw "Star Wars" as a double feature with "Royal Flash" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flash_(film)] so that would have fit perfectly. Imagine "Prisoner of Zenda" with a lot more sex.
Apparently "Royal Flash" was released in 1975, but small town cinemas get whatever they can get whenever it comes I suppose.
Personally I think the majority of the "3D printed gun" (oh, not the gun, just the receiver - what a misdirecting loser) hype has been attention seeking that depended upon those hysterics.
Hobby lathes and mills with CNC are now as cheap or cheaper than a 3D printer so you can make a real gun these days without a lot of outlay of time or cash. There used to be a huge hobby gunsmith scene that was perfectly legal. I've been out of touch on that topic for a couple of decades (I worked with some guys into historical black powder stuff) but I'd bet it's still around and that instructions on how to build decent guns are probably just as available as they used to be.
That's typically where the biggest bubbles burst when economies crash but you could be lucky.
How much is a house in Detroit worth these days? What did it used to be worth? If there is very little economic activity in an area real estate is not so safe as it looks when things are booming.
Then did you try to blame me for it?
WTF?
The "reality" we are discussing here is very simple. Names, dates and details have not been disclosed to us. I really don't get why you need to get insulting about it, and why you need to pretend you have more control over those other people than the zero which is reality.
It's currently not about my view or yours.
We are not considered worth informing on topics such as this.
My act of pointing that out is most definitely not an act of condoning such undemocratic secrecy and it is somewhat more than insulting that you are suggesting that I have a view that the citizens are there to serve government.
Understanding that there is a problem is a necessary step to take before solving it, and stating that there is a problem should not be taken as agreeing that things should stay like that.
Please do not treat this as a childish game.
Apart from a use that is described in the summary above.
Someone hasn't been paying attention over the last few years.
It's because they were descended from Nokia stuff where they had what looked like an insanely huge number of models, until you get that it does scale when you are selling millions of phones per year. Microsoft were not selling in such volumes so that made the cost of supporting multiple models something to be noticed.
They killed Nokia and are wearing it's skin, but they are no Nokia.
The Nokia N900 had that with it's mail client and "docs to go", as did probably a few other non-MS phones. It sold a few but not the numbers that MS seem to be looking for so I don't think it's that much of a "killer feature".
The inflation that has not happened yet because the economy has not yet really gone to shit (and hopefully will never get that bad). There's plenty of examples with Zimbabwe being a very recent one. In Zimbabwe the escape hatch was a foreign currency. With China people worried about a currency crash are buying up property in other countries as their escape hatch. Gold was a way out once but the gold price varies so much over time (it may crash along with the dollar), as well as there being tight controls on gold almost everywhere. A stash of cash might help since the US dollar isn't just used in the USA, but in other places it's just ended up as worthless paper when an economy crashes.
I'm not in the USA and some economists are predicting a 50% drop in currency value here if a few things happen with local interest rates versus others overseas. A stash of cash doesn't sound so good in that situation and other places have had it a lot worse.
I don't know, and that's another issue anyway. Whether minors are arrested for prostitution in that area or not the law in a lot of cases looks down on people who pay minors for sex, or even attempt such a transaction. Consider all those FBI stings with fake minors that the internet is infamous for. Even where prostitution is legal I can't see this going well for a guy who really was fucking minors after offering them a job and/or money (and IMHO that's how it should be, if guilty of that lock him up).
Somewhat orders of magnitude beyond optimism then!
It still doesn't change that you and I are not considered worth informing at this time.
Now that is optimism. Nobody has officially admitted yet that Saddam didn't have WMDs and that the "intelligence" was collated by a PR agency, that stuff leaked out unofficially. Nobody has admitted they never had any.
This situation is a lot harder to prove. With Saddam journalists had found out that Saddam had killed off the people who were working on his WMD projects in frustration with a lack of progress so the information was already in the public domain.
It's showbiz of a sort, it's about seeing a show and not something real.