You access their email inbox. Anytime your parents receive an email, you print it out and snail-mail the printout to your parents. They then send their reply to you, and you type it in.
"I think many of the 'original ideals' of UNIX are these days more of a mindset issue than necessarily reflecting reality of the situation. There's still value in understanding the traditional UNIX "do one thing and do it well" model where many workflows can be done as a pipeline of simple tools each adding their own value, but let's face it, it's not how complex systems really work, and it's not how major applications have been working or been designed for a long time. It's a useful simplification, and it's still true at some level, but I think it's also clear that it doesn't really describe most of reality."
That sure sounds like an opinion to me. I suspect he stated he didn't have an opinion just so he would start a war among his fanbois.
The last two times the power went out for days, I turned on my battery-powered radio and just scanned the dial until I heard a station giving local information.
That seemed to be a rather easy way to find which stations were broadcasting local info. btw, there were four stations that I could receive which abandoned their automated programming to go local.
Nowadays, HP is a mere shadow of its former self. Former self being the days when its test and measurement division (now Agilent) was an innovation powerhouse.
Expansion is different with ZFS. Different does not mean sucks. Different means you need to learn something new.
. In my experience, it does not suck, but is rather easy to do. I added a couple of disks, ran a couple of commands, and doubled the size of my ZFS pool.
It looks like the BBC presumes me to be an unsavory character here in the US. I am not able to view videos on the BBC news site, for some reason the BBC seems to think that the videos should not be viewed by me.
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To me, the BBC looks to be an organization that is completely anal with regard to who can view or who can access what on their website.
It looks to me as if the BBC would rather restrict than inform. But, hey, that is their choice.
If I were a news-oriented organization, I would probably take a different approach, but that's just me.
US businesses are more concerned about raking in the money than they are about the security of the accounts of the people from which they suck the money.
...Slideshows are an increasingly popular... web content genre...
I wish someone would claim the rights to web slideshows, and make everyone take 'em all down. I have been unable to find a more vacuous space waster on the web than the current abundance of slideshows. I'd almost rather watch cat videos..... (no flames please, I did say 'almost')
...These days, though, more and more of the addons I'm installing aren't to add useful functionality to Firefox, but just to fix really fucking stupid design decisions made by hipsters. The UI of Firefox, starting with Firefox 4, has continually gotten worse and worse. Now I have to install a handful of addons to undo these idiotic UI changes. It got even worse when Australis was forced upon us....
In my experience, the QA process for those add-ons is not nearly as good as the QA process for the FireFox browser. As a result, the functionality reclaimed by using those add-ons is usually problematic, at best.
The bug-fest called Classic Browser theme, or something like that, which reinstates the functional UI that Australis removed, is what convinced me to leave Firefox in the dust and start using Pale Moon as my browser of choice.
Well, I get analog broadcasts from my cable company....
Well, there's your problem. Most of the analog on cable nowadays originated as digital, and it was converted to analog at the cable company's head end. Then it travels through the cable system, being degraded at each active device along the way. By the time it reaches your house, the signal has been processed so much, anything resembling high frequency video information has been smeared out of existence.
When I spoke of analog broadcasts, I meant exactly that, i.e., a broadcast received over the air from the television station transmitting it. I have also been fortunate enough to live in the reception area of New York City, one of the two network origination points for network shows (the other is L.A.). So there is little, if any, signal degradation from the network's network.
Still, when compared to analog broadcast, (or very compressed digital) SD, a good VCR and a good tape produce quite a good image, it's not full broadcast quality, but good enough for me....
In the second hlaf of the 80's, I went with a S-VHS VCR that had Hi-Fi capability (20-20,000 Hz, with an excellent s/n ratio). You're correct, the picture can be "good enough". But regular VHS or even S-VHS is no where near the ability of analog broadcast. Not Even Close.
For starters, luminance resolution for analog broadcasts (when a comb filter is used) can extend to 5MHz or even higher. Luminance resolution with a VHS recorder tops out with a resolution around 1.5MHz, on a good day. Then add in all the shortcuts used to reduce the quality of the color to fit on the VHS tape format, and you have a very limited color spectrum.
It's a shame analog TV broadcasts have been phased out, if they weren't I'd suggest you view one on a high quality TV. I suspect you'd be surprised at what was capable with that system.
...even though they were brand-new 'broadcast quality' tapes recorded at 2-hour speed, they really don't look all that great now....
VHS was never even close to "broadcast quality" (even at the "2 hour" speed). I had S-VHS, which was markedly better than VHS, and even that was still a significant step below "broadcast quality". And I used the "2-hour" speed for S-VHS.
VHS just sucked, plain and simple.
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Methinks the quality of your tapes has not deteriorated anywhere near as much as you think, but your frame of reference has moved as you've bceome accustomed to newer technology.
Yes but you usually don't run into this problem when using MSOffice because everyone in the office has the same Office....
Not all offices have the same version of MS Office installed throughout the office. I've been at companies that have had three different versions of MS Office installed, and they did have issues with exchanging documents. The easiest solution was just to tell everyone to "save as an old MS Office format" when a document needed to be shared.
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Moving form office to office, I've found that LibreOffice does better than MS Office at properly importing office documents from various versions of MS Office. YMMV.
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You access their email inbox. Anytime your parents receive an email, you print it out and snail-mail the printout to your parents. They then send their reply to you, and you type it in.
...monolithic and practical...
Of course, that depends upon one's opinion of "practical".
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Some think that "practical" means a complex, overly interconnected maze of software.
"I think many of the 'original ideals' of UNIX are these days more of a mindset issue than necessarily reflecting reality of the situation. There's still value in understanding the traditional UNIX "do one thing and do it well" model where many workflows can be done as a pipeline of simple tools each adding their own value, but let's face it, it's not how complex systems really work, and it's not how major applications have been working or been designed for a long time. It's a useful simplification, and it's still true at some level, but I think it's also clear that it doesn't really describe most of reality."
That sure sounds like an opinion to me. I suspect he stated he didn't have an opinion just so he would start a war among his fanbois.
I do not believe him when he says Apple cannot access iMessage and FaceTime communications.
...Any idea how to find out which ones aren't?...
The last two times the power went out for days, I turned on my battery-powered radio and just scanned the dial until I heard a station giving local information.
That seemed to be a rather easy way to find which stations were broadcasting local info. btw, there were four stations that I could receive which abandoned their automated programming to go local.
What an impediment to learning googles are.
Don't hurt anyone, don't lie or steal from anyone and don't crap where we all live. ...
Most laws are within the confines you set. So what's your point?
I just need some gas money.
So, you're charging them for the ride.
...Revolting against England was illegal, yet we did it anyway.
The people who revolted against EDngland were willing to die for what they thought was wrong.
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I seriously doubt if you would be willing to engage in the same level of risk for what you proffer....
As evidenced by this.
Nowadays, HP is a mere shadow of its former self. Former self being the days when its test and measurement division (now Agilent) was an innovation powerhouse.
...expandability sucks...
Expansion is different with ZFS. Different does not mean sucks. Different means you need to learn something new.
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In my experience, it does not suck, but is rather easy to do. I added a couple of disks, ran a couple of commands, and doubled the size of my ZFS pool.
Easy as pie.
Been using rsync on ZFS for many months (FreeBSD 10.0). No issues whatsoever.
... or having dinner with their family.....
Times like this, I sympathize with the sysadmin of the spaceweather.com website. I hope she/he had nothing planned for this evening.....
. /. to get away from the drudge-type sites.
I visit
Are these topics indicative of the course the new owners of /. are taking, now that they have found out they cannot change the look of the site?
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To me, the BBC looks to be an organization that is completely anal with regard to who can view or who can access what on their website.
It looks to me as if the BBC would rather restrict than inform. But, hey, that is their choice.
If I were a news-oriented organization, I would probably take a different approach, but that's just me.
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Film at 11.
...Slideshows are an increasingly popular... web content genre...
I wish someone would claim the rights to web slideshows, and make everyone take 'em all down. I have been unable to find a more vacuous space waster on the web than the current abundance of slideshows. I'd almost rather watch cat videos..... (no flames please, I did say 'almost')
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Scientific consensus is an group of scientists agreeing on a proven theory or the proof of a theory.
Political consensus is a group of people ganging together to push their opinions on others.
The latter has a negative connotation which Mr. Crichton is using to taint the former.
...These days, though, more and more of the addons I'm installing aren't to add useful functionality to Firefox, but just to fix really fucking stupid design decisions made by hipsters. The UI of Firefox, starting with Firefox 4, has continually gotten worse and worse. Now I have to install a handful of addons to undo these idiotic UI changes. It got even worse when Australis was forced upon us....
In my experience, the QA process for those add-ons is not nearly as good as the QA process for the FireFox browser. As a result, the functionality reclaimed by using those add-ons is usually problematic, at best.
The bug-fest called Classic Browser theme, or something like that, which reinstates the functional UI that Australis removed, is what convinced me to leave Firefox in the dust and start using Pale Moon as my browser of choice.
Well, I get analog broadcasts from my cable company....
Well, there's your problem. Most of the analog on cable nowadays originated as digital, and it was converted to analog at the cable company's head end. Then it travels through the cable system, being degraded at each active device along the way. By the time it reaches your house, the signal has been processed so much, anything resembling high frequency video information has been smeared out of existence.
When I spoke of analog broadcasts, I meant exactly that, i.e., a broadcast received over the air from the television station transmitting it. I have also been fortunate enough to live in the reception area of New York City, one of the two network origination points for network shows (the other is L.A.). So there is little, if any, signal degradation from the network's network.
Still, when compared to analog broadcast, (or very compressed digital) SD, a good VCR and a good tape produce quite a good image, it's not full broadcast quality, but good enough for me....
In the second hlaf of the 80's, I went with a S-VHS VCR that had Hi-Fi capability (20-20,000 Hz, with an excellent s/n ratio). You're correct, the picture can be "good enough". But regular VHS or even S-VHS is no where near the ability of analog broadcast. Not Even Close.
For starters, luminance resolution for analog broadcasts (when a comb filter is used) can extend to 5MHz or even higher. Luminance resolution with a VHS recorder tops out with a resolution around 1.5MHz, on a good day. Then add in all the shortcuts used to reduce the quality of the color to fit on the VHS tape format, and you have a very limited color spectrum.
It's a shame analog TV broadcasts have been phased out, if they weren't I'd suggest you view one on a high quality TV. I suspect you'd be surprised at what was capable with that system.
...even though they were brand-new 'broadcast quality' tapes recorded at 2-hour speed, they really don't look all that great now....
VHS was never even close to "broadcast quality" (even at the "2 hour" speed). I had S-VHS, which was markedly better than VHS, and even that was still a significant step below "broadcast quality". And I used the "2-hour" speed for S-VHS. VHS just sucked, plain and simple.
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Methinks the quality of your tapes has not deteriorated anywhere near as much as you think, but your frame of reference has moved as you've bceome accustomed to newer technology.
Yes but you usually don't run into this problem when using MSOffice because everyone in the office has the same Office....
Not all offices have the same version of MS Office installed throughout the office. I've been at companies that have had three different versions of MS Office installed, and they did have issues with exchanging documents. The easiest solution was just to tell everyone to "save as an old MS Office format" when a document needed to be shared.
.
Moving form office to office, I've found that LibreOffice does better than MS Office at properly importing office documents from various versions of MS Office. YMMV.