A desktop computer in suspend will draw very little juice, allowing the UPS it's on to be unplugged from the wall. Even if your computer is not on a UPS, does availability of updates block hibernation?
Windows Professional didn't start to include BitLocker until Windows 8. You need Windows 7 Ultimate for that, and that was withdrawn from inclusion with PCs along with Windows 7 Home Premium. Is Anytime Upgrade from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate still in operation?
And sometimes you get law enforcement officers who appear to have forgotten the rules of the road. Today I was in the right half of the through lane of a city street without a bike lane, with a right-turn-only lane (we drive on the right in the United States) to my right. A cop in a cop car pulled up beside me at a red light and told me I shouldn't be on the road because I'm blocking traffic. When I asked for clarification, he told me I ought to be farther to the right or on the sidewalk, and then he drove off. As far as I can tell, the first is illegal because the lane to the right is a turn-only lane, and the second is dangerous because it might cause me to plow into a pedestrian. Was this an attempted entrapment or just what the French call les incompetents?
Legitimate businesses can get a lot more failures to conduct business, since customers would not always have the card ID ready at hand.
That can be handled with an awareness campaign analogous to the We Card program, building an expectation among citizens that if you're going to subscribe to porn, you're going to need to have handy a means of age verification.
just asking the question above does not create a bunch of opportunity for credit card fraud.
But it does create a bunch of opportunity for the government to shut down your business on grounds of not taking legally sufficient precautions against underage access. It's a balancing act of liability for credit card fraud vs. liability for fines for noncompliance.
I hope that what you're missing is the businesses that supply professional laptops will continue to offer them with Windows 7 and no junkware for the foreseeable future.
I don't see how they can continue to do that lawfully. From Windows lifecycle fact sheet: "End of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled [...] Windows 7 [...] October 31, 2014"
How does lack of BIOS "force" you to use Windows 8.1? The last time I tried Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, it supported UEFI just fine. And all the desktop applications I use either have a port, have an alternative, or work in Wine.
Once all non-Apple laptops sold in brick-and-mortar stores ship with Windows 10, choosing a MacBook instead of an entry-level Windows 10 laptop may cost more than just buying ad-free Solitaire for the five years that you plan to use the laptop. Or what am I missing?
If there's a "pancake face", it's Americans who wear too much makeup, or perhaps Americans who overindulge at IHOP, Bob Evans, and Denny's. And any country is a "gook", as guk is just the Sino-Korean word for a country, akin to Mandarin guó, Sino-Japanese koku, and Vietnamese quô'c.
unless you are watching video it's almost impossible to hit assuming you spend most of your actual day within reach of WiFi.
And additionally assuming that AdBlock is available for your preferred browser. A growing number of websites use HTML5 video ads on pages that otherwise have only text and static images.
And even the assumption of Wi-Fi availability during the majority of one's web use time doesn't apply to several groups of people. Some of them spend a lot of time riding public transit to and from work or wherever. Others have an employer that doesn't make a Wi-Fi network available for employees to use on breaks, not even just to check weather.gov to see when to jump on a bike and leave without getting caught in a downpour. Still others live in less-populated areas and are stuck with a quota even on their home Internet, especially if it's satellite, fixed cellular (LTE or WiMAX), or DSL in parts of Iowa.
Your CroMo frame held away from the sensor by 700c aluminum wheels can probably trigger it, but not from any distance.
At one problematic intersection, laying the bicycle down on the ground did not trigger it, and I had to readjust the handlebar mirror afterward. Nor could a bicycle and a motorcycle put together trigger it, despite there being a total of four wheels over the loop.
Go over and hit the "walk" button.
This intersection has no walk button. There are plenty of working pelican crossings in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but this isn't one of them. It lacks even the usual zebra stripes.
If you were to dismount, you suddenly become a pedestrian walking a bike.
True, but I was responding to Penguinisto's sarcastic criticism of the strategy of becoming "a pedestrian now".
You paranoiacs still carrying on about secure boot lol?
Point me to a working GNU/Linux live USB image for Surface 2 (not Pro, not 3) and we'll stop carrying on.
With the discontinuation of Windows RT, Microsoft is in effect giving each manufacturer the choice of whether to sell a Windows 10 PC under the old rules for Windows on x86-64, which forbid manufacturers to lock the PC's owner out of the Secure Boot options, or the old Windows RT rules, which require them to do so. Consider this situation: Someone buys a PC. Months later, long after the PC's return policy has expired, he learns about GNU/Linux and wants to try it. So he boots the live CD, only to discover that Secure Boot is blocking it. So he looks for something in the machine's EFI options, only to find that it's not there for that model because the manufacturer chose to apply the RT rules.
So I shoot someone in a video game, and I hear it one second later. Or the video and audio in a movie are out of sync by a second. Is either acceptable, and if not, what's the workaround?
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All routes that cross a particular road have the same problem with bicycle detection.
A desktop computer in suspend will draw very little juice, allowing the UPS it's on to be unplugged from the wall. Even if your computer is not on a UPS, does availability of updates block hibernation?
Windows Professional didn't start to include BitLocker until Windows 8. You need Windows 7 Ultimate for that, and that was withdrawn from inclusion with PCs along with Windows 7 Home Premium. Is Anytime Upgrade from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate still in operation?
And sometimes you get law enforcement officers who appear to have forgotten the rules of the road. Today I was in the right half of the through lane of a city street without a bike lane, with a right-turn-only lane (we drive on the right in the United States) to my right. A cop in a cop car pulled up beside me at a red light and told me I shouldn't be on the road because I'm blocking traffic. When I asked for clarification, he told me I ought to be farther to the right or on the sidewalk, and then he drove off. As far as I can tell, the first is illegal because the lane to the right is a turn-only lane, and the second is dangerous because it might cause me to plow into a pedestrian. Was this an attempted entrapment or just what the French call les incompetents?
Other comments to this story imply that you can't turn everything completely off without buying Windows 10 Enterprise.
things i do want:
[...]
Removal of all phone home code
For that, you're probably going to have to switch to GNU/Linux. Phone home code was introduced in Windows XP.
Removal of the "app store"
Do package repositories on GNU/Linux distributions count as an "app store" to you?
That's really annoying if I'm shutting down to go away for a while
That's what suspend is for.
or because of storm activity
That's what your computer's battery is for. Put it in suspend and disconnect the charger from the mains.
Just put a RED WARNING security patch update icon on the task bar or something.
I've seen people ignore six-month-old red warning icons.
but instead we dismiss linux and its advocates and such with slurs like "freetard" or "SJW" or "fedora" or "PC".
I thought Red Hat chose the name "Fedora" for its community distro and IBM chose the name "PC" for the model 5150.
Legitimate businesses can get a lot more failures to conduct business, since customers would not always have the card ID ready at hand.
That can be handled with an awareness campaign analogous to the We Card program, building an expectation among citizens that if you're going to subscribe to porn, you're going to need to have handy a means of age verification.
just asking the question above does not create a bunch of opportunity for credit card fraud.
But it does create a bunch of opportunity for the government to shut down your business on grounds of not taking legally sufficient precautions against underage access. It's a balancing act of liability for credit card fraud vs. liability for fines for noncompliance.
I hope that what you're missing is the businesses that supply professional laptops will continue to offer them with Windows 7 and no junkware for the foreseeable future.
I don't see how they can continue to do that lawfully. From Windows lifecycle fact sheet: "End of sales for PCs with Windows preinstalled [...] Windows 7 [...] October 31, 2014"
"I'm a bee, I'm a bee, I'm a I'm a I'm a bee"
-- The Black Eyed Peas
There exists free (as in DFSG) solitaire for Android.
Are you referring to the fact that http://slashdot.org/subscribe.... "is not available at the moment. We apologize for the inconvenience"?
How does lack of BIOS "force" you to use Windows 8.1? The last time I tried Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, it supported UEFI just fine. And all the desktop applications I use either have a port, have an alternative, or work in Wine.
(Yes, I know that's not what it stands for.)
Or, you know, you could just not use Windows 10.
Once all non-Apple laptops sold in brick-and-mortar stores ship with Windows 10, choosing a MacBook instead of an entry-level Windows 10 laptop may cost more than just buying ad-free Solitaire for the five years that you plan to use the laptop. Or what am I missing?
If there's a "pancake face", it's Americans who wear too much makeup, or perhaps Americans who overindulge at IHOP, Bob Evans, and Denny's. And any country is a "gook", as guk is just the Sino-Korean word for a country, akin to Mandarin guó, Sino-Japanese koku, and Vietnamese quô'c.
I know what I would choose: a country where you don't have quota on wired at least.
Which country has that, plus a decent standard of living otherwise, plus practical qualifications for immigration?
It's still a lot more reliable than asking "are you 18?". Sometimes it's wise to accept incremental improvements to avoid the Nirvana fallacy.
unless you are watching video it's almost impossible to hit assuming you spend most of your actual day within reach of WiFi.
And additionally assuming that AdBlock is available for your preferred browser. A growing number of websites use HTML5 video ads on pages that otherwise have only text and static images.
And even the assumption of Wi-Fi availability during the majority of one's web use time doesn't apply to several groups of people. Some of them spend a lot of time riding public transit to and from work or wherever. Others have an employer that doesn't make a Wi-Fi network available for employees to use on breaks, not even just to check weather.gov to see when to jump on a bike and leave without getting caught in a downpour. Still others live in less-populated areas and are stuck with a quota even on their home Internet, especially if it's satellite, fixed cellular (LTE or WiMAX), or DSL in parts of Iowa.
Your CroMo frame held away from the sensor by 700c aluminum wheels can probably trigger it, but not from any distance.
At one problematic intersection, laying the bicycle down on the ground did not trigger it, and I had to readjust the handlebar mirror afterward. Nor could a bicycle and a motorcycle put together trigger it, despite there being a total of four wheels over the loop.
Go over and hit the "walk" button.
This intersection has no walk button. There are plenty of working pelican crossings in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but this isn't one of them. It lacks even the usual zebra stripes.
If you were to dismount, you suddenly become a pedestrian walking a bike.
True, but I was responding to Penguinisto's sarcastic criticism of the strategy of becoming "a pedestrian now".
Even if Australia hasn't implemented Know Your Customer yet, its neighbor New Zealand has.
I mentioned QR code as a well-known application of BCH (aka Reed-Solomon) code.
You paranoiacs still carrying on about secure boot lol?
Point me to a working GNU/Linux live USB image for Surface 2 (not Pro, not 3) and we'll stop carrying on.
With the discontinuation of Windows RT, Microsoft is in effect giving each manufacturer the choice of whether to sell a Windows 10 PC under the old rules for Windows on x86-64, which forbid manufacturers to lock the PC's owner out of the Secure Boot options, or the old Windows RT rules, which require them to do so. Consider this situation: Someone buys a PC. Months later, long after the PC's return policy has expired, he learns about GNU/Linux and wants to try it. So he boots the live CD, only to discover that Secure Boot is blocking it. So he looks for something in the machine's EFI options, only to find that it's not there for that model because the manufacturer chose to apply the RT rules.
So I shoot someone in a video game, and I hear it one second later. Or the video and audio in a movie are out of sync by a second. Is either acceptable, and if not, what's the workaround?
If you're listening to music, and it's got a 1 second buffer, you'll never know.
Unless the pause and rewind buttons start to get laggy.
this can affect perceived responsiveness in interactive applications such as music production and video games.
none of this is important when listening to music or watching a movie. And at 48k sample rate, you aren't talking Telco anyway.
True, music production and video games aren't telco, but they need low latency for the same reason as telco.