I'm sorry but where is this hysterical coverage? The Guardian article you're critiquing here ends with:
"Two years ago there was a huge earthquake and tsunami that killed around 20,000 people. But every day when I read the paper, it said, 'nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster'. In actual fact, not one person has died of radiation, nor is anyone likely to. The straight story is the Japanese didn't have a nuclear response plan. There were a lot of human errors during what happened at Fukushima. It was old technology, badly maintained, and the regulator was not respected. Those are the facts. They have to be faced and dealt with."
It's a coping strategy to joke about the threat, not the victims. If you're joking about people glowing in the dark and those people lost access to the very ground their home used to stand on, you're a dick.
Believe it or not, all of the other sysadmins and network people know what they are doing, it's just they work on systems that - as an inherent part of their function - can't just be set up in a box with no contact to the outside world. I mean, my Game Boy's never going to need well-designed user authentication, but I don't go around boasting of my network security acumen on the back of that.
If you read the actual court documents it would seem that Goldtouch had a long history of presenting its work to mouse companies, then suing any and all of them who released an asymmetric mouse. They tended to lose those cases. They did manage to get MS to settle in a case on mouse data protocols, if software patents are your bag.
That post's own source article says quite the opposite, that the water will only be returned to the Pacific after treatment. Not exactly being honest with the readership, there.
Given that the overwhelming majority of users find their hardware to be excellent, is it not possible that you simply won the reverse lottery? Better to side with the larger sample size, after all.
For future reference, because you might need it some day:
"Properties" is the generic Device Properties pane you also get in Device Manager, which controls things like installing drivers. This is your lowest level. "Printer Properties" is Windows' generic settings for printers, which controls things like sharing the printer on the network or colour profiles. This is the next highest level. "Printer Preferences" is the manufacturer's software for controlling the printer, which controls features not supported under Windows's generic controls, like stapling or print quality. This is the highest level.
What's wrong with the Windows 7 start menu? It's essentially the XP one, except you can just tap a key and enter the first few characters of the app you want instead of dragging your mouse around some enormous list. You can revert to a Windows XP-style menu bar, too. Other than that it is the bugfixed, more technically-capable version of XP that you want: MS has been iterating on that same code base for a decade and a half now.
Now, Windows 8, that was a miscalculation. One interface to rule them all is not an answer to the tablet conundrum.
It's not that 8 is expensive, it's that XP has been heavily discounted due to age. A full XP licence at launch was a whole lot more expensive than a Windows 8 licence is today, even without accounting for inflation.
Yes, companies with billions of dollars can build bigger things than people with less money. You've shaken my perceptions of seasteading (whatever that is) to the core.
Nothing is wired straight through - electrically it's impossible, because the Lightning plug isn't palendromic. Everything has to go through the chip so that orientation detection and appropriate rerouting can occur.
If you think that's bad you should have been in Europe during the SCART days. RGB picture quality was great, but holy crap were those connectors awful.
(Protip: write caching is off by default in modern Windows, so you can actually just yank the USB stick when it finishes what it's doing without ill effect.)
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I'm sorry but where is this hysterical coverage? The Guardian article you're critiquing here ends with:
"Two years ago there was a huge earthquake and tsunami that killed around 20,000 people. But every day when I read the paper, it said, 'nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster, nuclear disaster'. In actual fact, not one person has died of radiation, nor is anyone likely to. The straight story is the Japanese didn't have a nuclear response plan. There were a lot of human errors during what happened at Fukushima. It was old technology, badly maintained, and the regulator was not respected. Those are the facts. They have to be faced and dealt with."
"The UK and Iran do it too" isn't exactly putting a positive spin on things.
It's a coping strategy to joke about the threat, not the victims. If you're joking about people glowing in the dark and those people lost access to the very ground their home used to stand on, you're a dick.
Fukushima Industries is a company that happens to originate in Fukushima. They make refridgerators. They're not TEPCO.
I gleaned this from reading the link you provided.
"Please continue to put money into working on a product I have no intention of paying for."
Believe it or not, all of the other sysadmins and network people know what they are doing, it's just they work on systems that - as an inherent part of their function - can't just be set up in a box with no contact to the outside world. I mean, my Game Boy's never going to need well-designed user authentication, but I don't go around boasting of my network security acumen on the back of that.
If you read the actual court documents it would seem that Goldtouch had a long history of presenting its work to mouse companies, then suing any and all of them who released an asymmetric mouse. They tended to lose those cases. They did manage to get MS to settle in a case on mouse data protocols, if software patents are your bag.
A floating platform in deep waters will, all things being equal, have a lower environmental impact that placing the same structure on a shoreline.
That post's own source article says quite the opposite, that the water will only be returned to the Pacific after treatment. Not exactly being honest with the readership, there.
I thought this was the Windows news item for a second.
Easy: "Did you hear the one about the AC who tried to make a joke without having one thought up? Something something. Your mother."
Given that the overwhelming majority of users find their hardware to be excellent, is it not possible that you simply won the reverse lottery? Better to side with the larger sample size, after all.
Err, XP-style task bar, I mean.
For future reference, because you might need it some day:
"Properties" is the generic Device Properties pane you also get in Device Manager, which controls things like installing drivers. This is your lowest level.
"Printer Properties" is Windows' generic settings for printers, which controls things like sharing the printer on the network or colour profiles. This is the next highest level.
"Printer Preferences" is the manufacturer's software for controlling the printer, which controls features not supported under Windows's generic controls, like stapling or print quality. This is the highest level.
They need better names.
What's wrong with the Windows 7 start menu? It's essentially the XP one, except you can just tap a key and enter the first few characters of the app you want instead of dragging your mouse around some enormous list. You can revert to a Windows XP-style menu bar, too. Other than that it is the bugfixed, more technically-capable version of XP that you want: MS has been iterating on that same code base for a decade and a half now.
Now, Windows 8, that was a miscalculation. One interface to rule them all is not an answer to the tablet conundrum.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Isn't that the kind of skills-based economy most of the developed world is desperately trying to assemble?
It's not that 8 is expensive, it's that XP has been heavily discounted due to age. A full XP licence at launch was a whole lot more expensive than a Windows 8 licence is today, even without accounting for inflation.
Nice try, but the party line is that the built-in AV software under Windows is more than sufficient.
Sounds like the offspring of an old urban legend involving images stolen from Daniel Rutter's review of an actual keyboard logger.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp
http://www.dansdata.com/keyghost.htm
Sounds almost laughably, inevitably fixable.
Yes, companies with billions of dollars can build bigger things than people with less money. You've shaken my perceptions of seasteading (whatever that is) to the core.
Nothing is wired straight through - electrically it's impossible, because the Lightning plug isn't palendromic. Everything has to go through the chip so that orientation detection and appropriate rerouting can occur.
If you think that's bad you should have been in Europe during the SCART days. RGB picture quality was great, but holy crap were those connectors awful.
It's using the USB protocol to communicate, but it sure as heck isn't a USB connector with all that silicon between the two devices.
(Protip: write caching is off by default in modern Windows, so you can actually just yank the USB stick when it finishes what it's doing without ill effect.)