Yes, Trump makes up stuff and outright lies about things. Have you talked with supporters of him? Most of them believe everything he says. That is the frightening part. His supporters know he will build the wall and make Mexico pay for it. His supporters know he will put a 45% tariff in place. His supporters now know he will force Apple to build their stuff in the US.
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That's the bug problem that I see. Trump is saying things he has no intention of doing, but people with loads of guns are taking him seriously.
...Comcrap have them by the balls now, it's just a matter of time before they start squeezing them to push up subscription rates for Netflix customers....
Comcast already has all over the top video providers in their firm grip via the data caps that are being instituted.
...Netflix offered to provide caching servers (at their own expense) to Comcast (it's a standing offer they make available to almost any ISP); Comcast refused the offer....
Did Comcast just refuse the offer, or did Comcast refuse the offer because Netflix wouldn't share their usage data? It would be nice to hear what Netflix has to say.;)
...NBC had hired a firm to estimate Netflix's viewership numbers, because Netflix won't release them....
Back when it appeared as if Comcast (owner of NBC) was slowing Netflix traffic via intentionally overloaded border routers, one of the proposed solutions I read about was for Netflix to place some content distribution servers in Comcast's data centers. To do so would have required Netflix to share it's usage data with Comcast, and Netflix didn't want any part of that.
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Now I understand better why Netflix didn't want to do that.
With what Microsoft has been doing in the consumer world with the Windows 10 installation nagging (~how many times do I have to tell Microsoft that I do not want to install Windows 10~) and the unwanted Windows 10 downloading, it is no surprise that AT&T is looking elsewhere for solutions.
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To me it appears that Microsoft is no longer a trustworthy partner, in business or in the home.
Now that the only newest versions of Microsoft Windows will support the latest versions of CPUs, the first step in Microsoft's Windows strategy is complete.
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The next step will be a monthly subscription fee to have Microsoft Windows "continuously updated" to support those new CPUs.
I don't expect a blower to clear my yard. I use the lawnmower and mulch them.
Mulching the leaves with a lawn mower works to a point. However, when the leaves get too deep, a leaf blower (or serious raking) is the only way to get them under control.
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Much, much faster than raking, and it does a better job than raking. Depending upon the size of the yard, a handheld can work, or you may need to step up to a backpack leaf blower, next step up is a walk-behind leaf blower. The latter provides some serious air movement, and should not be used by the timid.
...the emergence of battery-powered leaf blowers takes us closer to the Holy Grail of equipment that is both (1) powerful and (2) quiet....
and (3) runs for only 10 minutes before the battery drains down.
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True, the weaker battery-operated leaf blowers can have battery run time that is beyond 10 minutes. However, if you're looking for a battery-operated leaf blower that as powerful as one with a two-cycle engine, then you're looking at leaf blowers with a useful battery life of around 10 to 15 minutes.
Note: when the manufacturers rate the battery run time of leaf blowers in their advertisements and on their websites, they usually rate the battery life with the leaf blower running on its lowest speed. That's how they can say the battery lasts for an hour or more.
If you're just looking to blow the leaves off your patio or sidewalks, then the battery operated ones are fine. But don't expect to clean any reasonable sized yard of leaves..
The root cause of the problem is the ignorance-driven policies of the media content industries, who continue to deny that the world is getting smaller.
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Media content industries who want to continue to live in the good ole days.
Media content providers who are so afraid of technology that they are unable and {gasp!} unwilling to leverage it for profit.
Under X11 applications are responsible for remembering their own positions,
When I was trying out the latest version of KDE a couple of days ago, I found the menu on the top left of the window that provided the ability for me to manually set the "remember" options manually on a per application basis.
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That menu looked the same across all the applications, with the same options, leading me to think it was more of a KDE type of function than an application type of function.
To your point, isn't KDE an application in the eyes of the X11 system that it runs atop>
As with Windows, this is really up to the application.
Yet Windows apps tend to do that by default. All of them that I use do that.
Many apps are poorly written. But quite a few seen to remember their last size.
Very few seem to remember their last size, in fact not one of the apps I have used on a GNU/Linux desktop remembered its last size/position. So far, it's just been major apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, the KDE apps, etc. because I get too frustrated with it before I have a chance to move on to the more minor apps I need.
So instead of the constant stream of excuses and rationalizations why a windows on a GNU/Linux desktop cannot do something as simple as remember its size and position when it is closed, why doesn't the Linux community try to fix the problem?
There's not even that much of a difference between them and Windows in the first place.
The Linux desktops appear to have not yet discovered the concept of remembering the size and position of a window when the window is closed, and using that size and position the next time the window is opened.
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I made a similar comment a few days ago about KDE, and was told the new version does that. Well, yes, but it has to be manually enabled on a per-window basis, instead of with a global setting.
I could find the global setting to center all windows when they're open, and a bunch of other global settings, but I still cannot find any global setting to have all the windows remember their size and position when they are closed.
Refusing to do business with Microsoft is pretty hard, as it turns out.
So far, in the past few years, I've reduced the number of Windows licenses I use by 4. I've found FreeBSD to be quite useful for a lot of the server-type of things I used to do with Windows.
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I migrated away from Microsoft Office eight years ago.
Let's see, what other Microsoft software do I use? Nothing except for the the OS on the remaining Windows PCs.
Not buying anything else from Microsoft is looking to be easy....
How many times does a Microsoft customer have to tell Microsoft that the Windows 10 "upgrade" is not wanted?
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How many times does a Microsoft customer have to actively stop Microsoft from hijacking the PC for its own nefarious purposes?
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is no longer just asking if its customers want Windows 10. I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is trying to trick its customers into installing Windows 10 via a never ending string of pop-up questions and misleading dialog boxes.
I've also come to the conclusion that I no longer want to do business with a company that treats its customs in this manner.
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That's the bug problem that I see. Trump is saying things he has no intention of doing, but people with loads of guns are taking him seriously.
...Comcrap have them by the balls now, it's just a matter of time before they start squeezing them to push up subscription rates for Netflix customers....
Comcast already has all over the top video providers in their firm grip via the data caps that are being instituted.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...Netflix offered to provide caching servers (at their own expense) to Comcast (it's a standing offer they make available to almost any ISP); Comcast refused the offer....
Did Comcast just refuse the offer, or did Comcast refuse the offer because Netflix wouldn't share their usage data? It would be nice to hear what Netflix has to say. ;)
...NBC had hired a firm to estimate Netflix's viewership numbers, because Netflix won't release them....
Back when it appeared as if Comcast (owner of NBC) was slowing Netflix traffic via intentionally overloaded border routers, one of the proposed solutions I read about was for Netflix to place some content distribution servers in Comcast's data centers. To do so would have required Netflix to share it's usage data with Comcast, and Netflix didn't want any part of that.
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Now I understand better why Netflix didn't want to do that.
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To me it appears that Microsoft is no longer a trustworthy partner, in business or in the home.
...except for the briefest of computerized 'touches' on their accounts to see if the file reposed there....
A search is a search, no matter how innocent you try to make it sound.
Here's a site about leaf blowers. http://www.leafblowersdirect.c...
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The next step will be a monthly subscription fee to have Microsoft Windows "continuously updated" to support those new CPUs.
I don't expect a blower to clear my yard. I use the lawnmower and mulch them.
Mulching the leaves with a lawn mower works to a point. However, when the leaves get too deep, a leaf blower (or serious raking) is the only way to get them under control.
Clean a yard with a leafblower? Is that a thing?
Yes, it is a thing.
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Much, much faster than raking, and it does a better job than raking. Depending upon the size of the yard, a handheld can work, or you may need to step up to a backpack leaf blower, next step up is a walk-behind leaf blower. The latter provides some serious air movement, and should not be used by the timid.
...applications where a 4-stroke engine simply wouldn't work because it would weigh too much (leaf blowers,...
I've seen 4-stroke engines on leaf blowers, albeit, backpack leaf blowers.
...the emergence of battery-powered leaf blowers takes us closer to the Holy Grail of equipment that is both (1) powerful and (2) quiet....
and (3) runs for only 10 minutes before the battery drains down.
.
True, the weaker battery-operated leaf blowers can have battery run time that is beyond 10 minutes. However, if you're looking for a battery-operated leaf blower that as powerful as one with a two-cycle engine, then you're looking at leaf blowers with a useful battery life of around 10 to 15 minutes.
Note: when the manufacturers rate the battery run time of leaf blowers in their advertisements and on their websites, they usually rate the battery life with the leaf blower running on its lowest speed. That's how they can say the battery lasts for an hour or more.
If you're just looking to blow the leaves off your patio or sidewalks, then the battery operated ones are fine. But don't expect to clean any reasonable sized yard of leaves..
One could argue that "trying to do too much" has led to the sloppiness you cite. ;)
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And then there is always this old chestnut... The Big Ball of Mud.
When you cede control of your world to The Cloud and automatic updates, you should not expect reliability.
I would say you heard it here first, but I would be surprised if it weren't posted already. :)
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Media content industries who want to continue to live in the good ole days.
Media content providers who are so afraid of technology that they are unable and {gasp!} unwilling to leverage it for profit.
Under X11 applications are responsible for remembering their own positions,
When I was trying out the latest version of KDE a couple of days ago, I found the menu on the top left of the window that provided the ability for me to manually set the "remember" options manually on a per application basis.
.
That menu looked the same across all the applications, with the same options, leading me to think it was more of a KDE type of function than an application type of function.
To your point, isn't KDE an application in the eyes of the X11 system that it runs atop>
As with Windows, this is really up to the application.
Yet Windows apps tend to do that by default. All of them that I use do that.
Many apps are poorly written. But quite a few seen to remember their last size.
Very few seem to remember their last size, in fact not one of the apps I have used on a GNU/Linux desktop remembered its last size/position. So far, it's just been major apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, the KDE apps, etc. because I get too frustrated with it before I have a chance to move on to the more minor apps I need.
So instead of the constant stream of excuses and rationalizations why a windows on a GNU/Linux desktop cannot do something as simple as remember its size and position when it is closed, why doesn't the Linux community try to fix the problem?
There's not even that much of a difference between them and Windows in the first place.
The Linux desktops appear to have not yet discovered the concept of remembering the size and position of a window when the window is closed, and using that size and position the next time the window is opened.
.
I made a similar comment a few days ago about KDE, and was told the new version does that. Well, yes, but it has to be manually enabled on a per-window basis, instead of with a global setting.
I could find the global setting to center all windows when they're open, and a bunch of other global settings, but I still cannot find any global setting to have all the windows remember their size and position when they are closed.
Does it remember the new size and position when you close it?
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Un - friggin' - believable.
Refusing to do business with Microsoft is pretty hard, as it turns out.
So far, in the past few years, I've reduced the number of Windows licenses I use by 4. I've found FreeBSD to be quite useful for a lot of the server-type of things I used to do with Windows.
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I migrated away from Microsoft Office eight years ago.
Let's see, what other Microsoft software do I use? Nothing except for the the OS on the remaining Windows PCs.
Not buying anything else from Microsoft is looking to be easy....
My wife's next laptop will be running Linux or Mac OS X, which is not a big deal as she has used both in the past.
I was playing with Linux (and KDE) last night on my laptop. I'm currently looking through the various desktops to see which one fits my needs.
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How many times does a Microsoft customer have to actively stop Microsoft from hijacking the PC for its own nefarious purposes?
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is no longer just asking if its customers want Windows 10. I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is trying to trick its customers into installing Windows 10 via a never ending string of pop-up questions and misleading dialog boxes.
I've also come to the conclusion that I no longer want to do business with a company that treats its customs in this manner.