The review said the keyboard was almost useless. The screen is smaller than the Air, and they are not promoting resolution so it is probably crap.
The Air comes in either a 11" or 13" screen sizes. So you are correct if we specify you mean the 13" model. The resolution is listed in TFS as 1920x1080 pixels.
This will turn out like the North Korean business partnerships where once everything is rolling smoothly the foreign investors suddenly find themselves being shut of things, and then one day the joint venture (and all its assets in the country) get seized for some reason. Then it just becomes a wholly state-owned company with start-up costs and IP essentially donated by the former partner.
As long the providers don't get the money until after the project is completed. Have it held in escrow, even. If they say they need the money for the build-out costs, I'm sure there are more than a couple banks that would make a loan on a business expansion where the repayment is guaranteed by the federal government.
You're missing the point of my original post, which is that people who don't even use Microsoft online services are now going to beholden to Microsoft's stupid password requirements simply because they got tricked into signing up for such an account when they got their PC. Lots of these people didn't even want a login of any sort on their computer to start with, but were forced into picking one when they upgraded from their ol' creaky XP machine when it stopped being supported.
Even if you set up a Windows 8 or 10 PC with a local only account, if you try to use the Microsoft-included email application with your "burner" Hotmail account, the machine converts your local-only Windows user account into a Microsoft Account.
I have a local-only Windows account and a Hotmail account I keep separate as well -- using Thunderbird. Would you still like a gold star, Timmy?
The good news is that the hackers are having trouble figuring out how to get the 2600 baud acoustic modems to ARPAnet to download the malware...
You mean 2400 baud modem. "2600" is either the original Atari console, or the hacker magazine.
Maybe the malware infection will be done acoustically as the parent post said, so to cover their tracks they need to make a lot of pay phone calls to ARPAnet.
With Microsoft doing their best to get people to use Microsoft Accounts on their Windows installs, that means people will soon be required to get approval from Redmond for the password they use to get into their own in PC in their own home.
Seriously, what kind of sadistic fucks come up with these idiotic schemes?
The marketing people, likely under the pressure of getting adoption rates up to the C-levels' expectations. What happened here was they crossed a line into doing something that was directly comparable to malware, and I bet their legal department stepped in to say this was a bad idea.
People keep asking in the comments on these stories why no civil/criminal charges have been brought against Microsoft for these "forced upgrades" and here is an example of the company actually worrying about that.
These changes are spurred in part by a desire to reduce labor costs, but have also been made in response to an explosion at a Kunshan factory in 2014 that killed 146 people. The explosion was attributed to unsafe working conditions in the Taiwanese-owned metal polishing factory, which were recognized and documented. After the explosion, the local government pledged 2 billion yuan per year in subsidies to support companies that install industrial robots on their production lines.
An explosion happens at an industrial site due to unsafe working conditions. Instead of pledging 2 bil yuan of taxpayer money for, I dunno, better safety code enforcement, they give the company money to help them get rid of the workers and put in robots.
Not so sure HP has been a "great company" for some time.
I wonder what sort of debts they will try and push onto whatever this remainder-of-HPE company is going to be. Gotta find a way to get that "clean slate" by scuttling the old ship with undesirably consequences of past leadership's transgressions, not to mention least favorite people. Those brave souls who remain will steer the old wreckage to the bottom of Bankruptcy Bay. A few will plan golden life rafts to escape the undertow that pulls hapless stockholders down with it.
In Seattle I have multiple providers of 1Gbps service that I can choose from with low rates. My guess is it is the proximity to Microsoft and the progressive city council that has helped make this happen. Data caps stink!
Must be a fairly recent development.
Five year ago I had a roommate who finished his degree and was hired right into Microsoft. At the time we were sharing a 50 mbps cable modem connection (we were in Kansas), and apparently he could not get higher than 15 mbps in the area of Seattle he was relocating to. It was an uptown apartment so maybe it was a case of old infrastructure and an incumbent provider controlling it.
I better headline for this would have been "Xiaomi Revenues Were Steady in 2015". Oh no! We made money, just like we did last year. We must be a failure!
Given the preponderance of opinions on slashdot for being pro nuclear power, why does mdsolar get so much airtime?
To give coverage to opposing views. I mean, if we didn't have some of these pieces from time to time, mdsolar would accuse us of "suppressing stories with certain viewpoints", like Facebook allegedly does. And if there's one thing we don't want, it's to be anything like Narcis--- er Facebook.
One big advantage of a flip-phone is built-in screen protection for when you have it in your pocket with other objects potentially. I never used a flip-phone back in the day, because the audio quality was lower than candy bar handsets (because of the thinner speaker diaphragms needed to fit the thin earpiece area) and lower battery life (because the body didn't have to fold in half, a candy-bar could have a much longer battery cell on the back).
It is really endearing of Americans when they think they can use a few handguns to rise against an army having tanks, artillery and bombs.
The populace still has a sheer number advantage over the armed forces. You also assume military people will blindly go forward with a war against their own country's citizens. There are certainly a lot of "just following orders" types, but many more would say "no", or turn around and join the other side instead.
Also, as a sociology professor I had pointed out once, government only functions because the people allow it to. They can only rule us as long as we let them. If the population collectively stops obeying them, they are no longer our rulers, regardless of what weapons they have. If they kill us all, they will have no subjects left to rule.
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The review said the keyboard was almost useless.
The screen is smaller than the Air, and they are not promoting resolution so it is probably crap.
The Air comes in either a 11" or 13" screen sizes. So you are correct if we specify you mean the 13" model.
The resolution is listed in TFS as 1920x1080 pixels.
Kinda amused to see this get put out as a story now. It didn't get much attention when I pointed it out yesterday. The little ninja character was gone pretty fast, though.
This will turn out like the North Korean business partnerships where once everything is rolling smoothly the foreign investors suddenly find themselves being shut of things, and then one day the joint venture (and all its assets in the country) get seized for some reason. Then it just becomes a wholly state-owned company with start-up costs and IP essentially donated by the former partner.
It just wont be done so blatantly in China.
Who cares? It's not relevant to anyone. Why would you use a Facebook clone with virtually no users instead of actually using Facebook?
Of course we should care! It's not a Facebook clone. Facebook is obviously an inferior clone of Best Korea's social networking site.
One hacker appears to have North Korea's Facebook password.
(referring to the ninja in the lower-left corner)
As long the providers don't get the money until after the project is completed. Have it held in escrow, even.
If they say they need the money for the build-out costs, I'm sure there are more than a couple banks that would make a loan on a business expansion where the repayment is guaranteed by the federal government.
You're missing the point of my original post, which is that people who don't even use Microsoft online services are now going to beholden to Microsoft's stupid password requirements simply because they got tricked into signing up for such an account when they got their PC. Lots of these people didn't even want a login of any sort on their computer to start with, but were forced into picking one when they upgraded from their ol' creaky XP machine when it stopped being supported.
Even if you set up a Windows 8 or 10 PC with a local only account, if you try to use the Microsoft-included email application with your "burner" Hotmail account, the machine converts your local-only Windows user account into a Microsoft Account.
I have a local-only Windows account and a Hotmail account I keep separate as well -- using Thunderbird.
Would you still like a gold star, Timmy?
Commas.
Have your heard of them?
You have that backwards. The gov doesn't regulate large monopolies...
That's right! Large monopolies regulate the government.
Or maybe it could refer to all of their online accounts such as Hot Mail, Xbox accounts, etc.
A Microsoft Account is a login for Hotmail and XBox, and your PC, too if you didn't dig for the Local Account option during setup. That's the point.
The good news is that the hackers are having trouble figuring out how to get the 2600 baud acoustic modems to ARPAnet to download the malware...
You mean 2400 baud modem. "2600" is either the original Atari console, or the hacker magazine.
Maybe the malware infection will be done acoustically as the parent post said, so to cover their tracks they need to make a lot of pay phone calls to ARPAnet.
With Microsoft doing their best to get people to use Microsoft Accounts on their Windows installs, that means people will soon be required to get approval from Redmond for the password they use to get into their own in PC in their own home.
Microsoft retrofitted much of its Win 10 spyware into Windows 7 updates a while back.
How can I check to see if I was infected with this Windows Malware in my Win 7 system?\
And second, if it did do that, is there any way to throw the genie out of the bottle? (Get rid of the spyware?)
Yes, there is.
Seriously, what kind of sadistic fucks come up with these idiotic schemes?
The marketing people, likely under the pressure of getting adoption rates up to the C-levels' expectations.
What happened here was they crossed a line into doing something that was directly comparable to malware, and I bet their legal department stepped in to say this was a bad idea.
People keep asking in the comments on these stories why no civil/criminal charges have been brought against Microsoft for these "forced upgrades" and here is an example of the company actually worrying about that.
These changes are spurred in part by a desire to reduce labor costs, but have also been made in response to an explosion at a Kunshan factory in 2014 that killed 146 people. The explosion was attributed to unsafe working conditions in the Taiwanese-owned metal polishing factory, which were recognized and documented. After the explosion, the local government pledged 2 billion yuan per year in subsidies to support companies that install industrial robots on their production lines.
An explosion happens at an industrial site due to unsafe working conditions. Instead of pledging 2 bil yuan of taxpayer money for, I dunno, better safety code enforcement, they give the company money to help them get rid of the workers and put in robots.
LOL. The "People's Party" indeed!
Not so sure HP has been a "great company" for some time.
I wonder what sort of debts they will try and push onto whatever this remainder-of-HPE company is going to be. Gotta find a way to get that "clean slate" by scuttling the old ship with undesirably consequences of past leadership's transgressions, not to mention least favorite people. Those brave souls who remain will steer the old wreckage to the bottom of Bankruptcy Bay. A few will plan golden life rafts to escape the undertow that pulls hapless stockholders down with it.
In Seattle I have multiple providers of 1Gbps service that I can choose from with low rates. My guess is it is the proximity to Microsoft and the progressive city council that has helped make this happen. Data caps stink!
Must be a fairly recent development.
Five year ago I had a roommate who finished his degree and was hired right into Microsoft. At the time we were sharing a 50 mbps cable modem connection (we were in Kansas), and apparently he could not get higher than 15 mbps in the area of Seattle he was relocating to. It was an uptown apartment so maybe it was a case of old infrastructure and an incumbent provider controlling it.
Hear, hear!
I better headline for this would have been "Xiaomi Revenues Were Steady in 2015".
Oh no! We made money, just like we did last year. We must be a failure!
Cool story, bro.
Given the preponderance of opinions on slashdot for being pro nuclear power, why does mdsolar get so much airtime?
To give coverage to opposing views. I mean, if we didn't have some of these pieces from time to time, mdsolar would accuse us of "suppressing stories with certain viewpoints", like Facebook allegedly does. And if there's one thing we don't want, it's to be anything like Narcis--- er Facebook.
One big advantage of a flip-phone is built-in screen protection for when you have it in your pocket with other objects potentially.
I never used a flip-phone back in the day, because the audio quality was lower than candy bar handsets (because of the thinner speaker diaphragms needed to fit the thin earpiece area) and lower battery life (because the body didn't have to fold in half, a candy-bar could have a much longer battery cell on the back).
It is really endearing of Americans when they think they can use a few handguns to rise against an army having tanks, artillery and bombs.
The populace still has a sheer number advantage over the armed forces. You also assume military people will blindly go forward with a war against their own country's citizens. There are certainly a lot of "just following orders" types, but many more would say "no", or turn around and join the other side instead.
Also, as a sociology professor I had pointed out once, government only functions because the people allow it to. They can only rule us as long as we let them. If the population collectively stops obeying them, they are no longer our rulers, regardless of what weapons they have. If they kill us all, they will have no subjects left to rule.
to craft the tool necessary to dig through that firewall.