Those displays can be ordered in bulk from Alibaba for as low as $30 a piece, add on a $5 GPS and $10 cellular data modem, toss it all in some plastic and you're paying $700 for a $50 device. The audacity that they would charge you $7 a month for something they are going to use to display ads to others is unacceptable.
Information such as my name, address, and telephone number are public record thanks to the government and easily obtainable via any number of websites. Something like my bank account number, credit card numbers, pin codes, and passwords I would consider "private data". The anonymized information that companies like Microsoft gather I do not consider private. I am glad if Microsoft knows that there software crashed or that I use Chrome instead of Edge 99.99999% of the time.
I would like to see one of these idiots that are OUTRAGED by metrics actually point out what specific data they disagree with that is being collected.
I am still shocked that a company like Stardock has not released a utility to automate the removal of all the Store app ads in the Start Menu. Zero excuse for Candy Crush Saga to be present on a machine that is joined to a corporate domain.
Slashdot has always had the "reply to every story and comment with racism" trolls, they are always modded down swiftly so that anyone viewing with a score of 2 or higher comment-threshold don't see them.
My experience working at Symantec (damn near 20 years ago) was that the Gen-X'ers in management were taking 3 hour lunches at Olive Garden while spending the rest of their time in the office chatting about their personal lives rather than doing any actual work. The IT department was a room that the neckbeards tried to keep the door closed to, while the Gen-X'ers detested the obese ragged appearance of the techs (little has changed in that regards today.)
My experience in IT at a place that used the corporate edition of Symantec's anti-virus product was that it regularly failed to update itself and was very reliable at detecting virus infections, but only after the virus had finished dropping its payload. I championed removing Symantec and giving users 30% of the performance of their machines back, but management was living in fear of the Sarbanes-Oxley boogeyman. We always ended up using MalwareBytes to clean the machines which would have been a better investment.
Learn the language of another country you have an interest in, move there and work with startups trying to get off the ground that have solid financial backing. If family makes that too difficult to pursue, then get your MBA and prepare for a management position before you get age-discriminated out of your field of work.
Logitech Setpoint customizations (such as Universal Scrolling) no longer works in UWP apps. It still works fine in desktop apps such as Internet Explorer but does not work in: Microsoft Edge, or the Office365 version of Office 2016. It worked fine the day before 1803 was installed. Uninstall/reinstall of Setpoint and the Logitech mouse driver does not fix it.
The other thing I noticed is that it is no longer possible to select the color black for your Windows 10 theme color, it forces the color to be gray instead.
GPU vendors also announced they are drastically cutting back their production to coincide with the mining reduction. They will do everything they possibly can to retain the inflated prices.
Cable Internet took off in 1997, it was only slow to reach rural areas. You must have been too young to remember the "net days" of 1995 and 1996 when fiber optic cables were being run across the country. I was in college at the time when our state representative stopped by the college campus to give a speech and do a Q&A session, the first question asked was when cable Internet was going to be delivered to our area, it was the most important topic of discussion for all of the students there. As much as I hate to link to CNN, here's an article to give a little insight: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9706/1...
Paul Thurrott wrote an article about his love of 3:2 displays a few weeks back: https://www.thurrott.com/hardw... (Premium, requires membership to read the full article)
"Dr Reichelt said maps accompanying the research had been misleading, exaggerating the impact. “I don’t know whether it was a deliberate sleight of hand or lack of geographic knowledge but it certainly suits the purpose of the people who sent it out,” he said.
“This is a frightening enough story with the facts, you don’t need to dress them up. We don’t want to be seen as saying there is no problem out there but we do want people to understand there is a lot of the reef that is unscathed.”
Dr Reichelt said there had been widespread misinterpretation of how much of the reef had died.
“We’ve seen headlines stating that 93 per cent of the reef is practically dead,” he said.
“We’ve also seen reports that 35 per cent, or even 50 per cent, of the entire reef is now gone.
“However, based on our combined results so far, the overall mortality rate is 22 per cent — and about 85 per cent of that die-off has occurred in the far north between the tip of Cape York and just north of Lizard Island, 250km north of Cairns. Seventy-five per cent of the reef will come out in a few months time as recovered.”"
Basic economics, the longer the money is in your savings account, the more money you earn in interest. Also, after Christmas, it takes a few months to save up enough to pay the Obama white slavery tax (health care tax penalty,) thankfully that will be removed next year.
Excellent, glad to hear it. If you are ratted out to the police it means you were committing a crime, the more criminals we can get off the road the better.
It's no worse than GPS which resulted in an entire family from the UK being killed when they made a U-turn in the middle of a highway "because the GPS told them to". https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
The reality is that at highway speeds there would have been no time for any automated system to bring the vehicle to a stop in this situation (barrier where a lane splits.) Had the barrier been present it is likely the driver would have been less injured and still be alive, he had already survived the initial crash but was injured too badly and died at the hospital. The part of the barrier that had been removed is the part that is designed to crumple and absorb the energy of the impact prior to a vehicle striking the concrete barrier. The Mercury News article linked above has a photo from the day before the crash captured by a Google mapping car comparing the barrier to an older photo that shows what the original barrier looked like.
There's a video of the bridge collapse from a security or traffic camera, I forget which. Sadly, it's video recorded by pointing a camera at a computer monitor so it's rather low quality. You can see the engineers on top of the bridge doing some work, a crane nearby that had its line out to the top of the bridge for some reason, and you can see how it all failed since the camera was positioned higher than the bridge. What will be even more helpful is if any vehicle that morning had a dash cam to see what was happening underneath before the collapse.
Toys R Us jumped the shark back in the mid-90s when they started reducing inventory and changing their store layouts to be more like a boutique of toys rather than a warehouse of toys. Followed by dropping long-time employees in favor of illegal (low-wage) immigrants and reducing the number of cashiers. For a brief period of time in the early to mid 2000's they attempted to take online seriously with decent deals and fast shipping but even that went downhill fast. It's shocking they never bothered to invest more heavily into online sales. There is no online store offering serious discounts on toys. Back in the 1980's it used to be possible to walk into a Toys R Us and buy toys no more than a year old that were on sale for 30%-50% off ("look for the orange sticker") now you will be paying full price or more than full price anywhere you go.
I am happy to hear employees confirm that Tesla invests a lot of time and energy into manufacturing a high quality car instead of pumping out critically flawed death traps the way Chevy does.
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Those displays can be ordered in bulk from Alibaba for as low as $30 a piece, add on a $5 GPS and $10 cellular data modem, toss it all in some plastic and you're paying $700 for a $50 device. The audacity that they would charge you $7 a month for something they are going to use to display ads to others is unacceptable.
Information such as my name, address, and telephone number are public record thanks to the government and easily obtainable via any number of websites. Something like my bank account number, credit card numbers, pin codes, and passwords I would consider "private data". The anonymized information that companies like Microsoft gather I do not consider private. I am glad if Microsoft knows that there software crashed or that I use Chrome instead of Edge 99.99999% of the time.
I would like to see one of these idiots that are OUTRAGED by metrics actually point out what specific data they disagree with that is being collected.
I am still shocked that a company like Stardock has not released a utility to automate the removal of all the Store app ads in the Start Menu. Zero excuse for Candy Crush Saga to be present on a machine that is joined to a corporate domain.
Slashdot has always had the "reply to every story and comment with racism" trolls, they are always modded down swiftly so that anyone viewing with a score of 2 or higher comment-threshold don't see them.
My experience working at Symantec (damn near 20 years ago) was that the Gen-X'ers in management were taking 3 hour lunches at Olive Garden while spending the rest of their time in the office chatting about their personal lives rather than doing any actual work. The IT department was a room that the neckbeards tried to keep the door closed to, while the Gen-X'ers detested the obese ragged appearance of the techs (little has changed in that regards today.)
My experience in IT at a place that used the corporate edition of Symantec's anti-virus product was that it regularly failed to update itself and was very reliable at detecting virus infections, but only after the virus had finished dropping its payload. I championed removing Symantec and giving users 30% of the performance of their machines back, but management was living in fear of the Sarbanes-Oxley boogeyman. We always ended up using MalwareBytes to clean the machines which would have been a better investment.
First time I heard someone say it was regarding Iran sanctions as opposed to xenophobia. Almost as if all the previous stories were #FakeNews.
Learn the language of another country you have an interest in, move there and work with startups trying to get off the ground that have solid financial backing. If family makes that too difficult to pursue, then get your MBA and prepare for a management position before you get age-discriminated out of your field of work.
Logitech Setpoint customizations (such as Universal Scrolling) no longer works in UWP apps. It still works fine in desktop apps such as Internet Explorer but does not work in: Microsoft Edge, or the Office365 version of Office 2016. It worked fine the day before 1803 was installed. Uninstall/reinstall of Setpoint and the Logitech mouse driver does not fix it.
The other thing I noticed is that it is no longer possible to select the color black for your Windows 10 theme color, it forces the color to be gray instead.
GPU vendors also announced they are drastically cutting back their production to coincide with the mining reduction. They will do everything they possibly can to retain the inflated prices.
1.) How is the electricity generated?
2.) How many days a year does the electricity go out (on average)?
There hasn't been DRM on music since 2009.
Cable Internet took off in 1997, it was only slow to reach rural areas. You must have been too young to remember the "net days" of 1995 and 1996 when fiber optic cables were being run across the country. I was in college at the time when our state representative stopped by the college campus to give a speech and do a Q&A session, the first question asked was when cable Internet was going to be delivered to our area, it was the most important topic of discussion for all of the students there. As much as I hate to link to CNN, here's an article to give a little insight: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9706/1...
Here is a fairly informative article about Set TV and how illegal IPTV services work: https://flixed.io/set-tv-not-l...
Paul Thurrott wrote an article about his love of 3:2 displays a few weeks back: https://www.thurrott.com/hardw... (Premium, requires membership to read the full article)
Here is a more informative source: https://www.theaustralian.com....
"Dr Reichelt said maps accompanying the research had been misleading, exaggerating the impact. “I don’t know whether it was a deliberate sleight of hand or lack of geographic knowledge but it certainly suits the purpose of the people who sent it out,” he said.
“This is a frightening enough story with the facts, you don’t need to dress them up. We don’t want to be seen as saying there is no problem out there but we do want people to understand there is a lot of the reef that is unscathed.”
Dr Reichelt said there had been widespread misinterpretation of how much of the reef had died.
“We’ve seen headlines stating that 93 per cent of the reef is practically dead,” he said.
“We’ve also seen reports that 35 per cent, or even 50 per cent, of the entire reef is now gone.
“However, based on our combined results so far, the overall mortality rate is 22 per cent — and about 85 per cent of that die-off has occurred in the far north between the tip of Cape York and just north of Lizard Island, 250km north of Cairns. Seventy-five per cent of the reef will come out in a few months time as recovered.”"
Do none of these NYTimes twats know the word "scraping"? They seem Hell bent on trying to make what occurred appear like some l33t hacking operation.
Basic economics, the longer the money is in your savings account, the more money you earn in interest. Also, after Christmas, it takes a few months to save up enough to pay the Obama white slavery tax (health care tax penalty,) thankfully that will be removed next year.
Excellent, glad to hear it. If you are ratted out to the police it means you were committing a crime, the more criminals we can get off the road the better.
A traditional crew of home builders can build an ICF home over twice the size of this one in 1 day, this robot takes 18 days??
It's no worse than GPS which resulted in an entire family from the UK being killed when they made a U-turn in the middle of a highway "because the GPS told them to". https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
They were on sale for $5 a few months ago.
The barrier had been removed for reasons that CalTrans has yet to explain:
https://www.mercurynews.com/20... (AdBlock Blocker, pause AdBlock to read the article)
The reality is that at highway speeds there would have been no time for any automated system to bring the vehicle to a stop in this situation (barrier where a lane splits.) Had the barrier been present it is likely the driver would have been less injured and still be alive, he had already survived the initial crash but was injured too badly and died at the hospital. The part of the barrier that had been removed is the part that is designed to crumple and absorb the energy of the impact prior to a vehicle striking the concrete barrier. The Mercury News article linked above has a photo from the day before the crash captured by a Google mapping car comparing the barrier to an older photo that shows what the original barrier looked like.
There's a video of the bridge collapse from a security or traffic camera, I forget which. Sadly, it's video recorded by pointing a camera at a computer monitor so it's rather low quality. You can see the engineers on top of the bridge doing some work, a crane nearby that had its line out to the top of the bridge for some reason, and you can see how it all failed since the camera was positioned higher than the bridge. What will be even more helpful is if any vehicle that morning had a dash cam to see what was happening underneath before the collapse.
Toys R Us jumped the shark back in the mid-90s when they started reducing inventory and changing their store layouts to be more like a boutique of toys rather than a warehouse of toys. Followed by dropping long-time employees in favor of illegal (low-wage) immigrants and reducing the number of cashiers. For a brief period of time in the early to mid 2000's they attempted to take online seriously with decent deals and fast shipping but even that went downhill fast. It's shocking they never bothered to invest more heavily into online sales. There is no online store offering serious discounts on toys. Back in the 1980's it used to be possible to walk into a Toys R Us and buy toys no more than a year old that were on sale for 30%-50% off ("look for the orange sticker") now you will be paying full price or more than full price anywhere you go.
I am happy to hear employees confirm that Tesla invests a lot of time and energy into manufacturing a high quality car instead of pumping out critically flawed death traps the way Chevy does.