Plastic straws/knives/plates/etc. make up a tiny portion of plastic waste. Europe (and the US) make up a tiny portion of ocean plastic waste. Almost all is from Asia and Africa.
So the net change to this is near zero. This is all virtue signaling and will have no real change to pollution.
Meanwhile, it will inconvenience hundreds of millions of people.
The Win10 calculator has an awful UI. It's huge -- much bigger than it needs to be. As others here have noted, it also starts slowly, since it's a Windows Store app and not a normal Win32 program. As others here have also noted, it may not work at all if your network's firewall blocks Windows Store access. (Or you remove the Windows Store from Windows.)
So, replace the darn thing. There are lots of other Windows calculator programs out there. (My favorite is Moffset FreeCalc: http://www.moffsoft.com/freeca.... It may not be visually the most beautiful either, but it doesn't take up tons of screen real estate, it's fast, and it does everything I need. And it's free.)
And if you want, you can do some registry hacks so any attempts to run calc.exe instead run Moffset FreeCalc, or whatever is your calculator of choice.
My batch here is also easily adjustable to open a different calculator (e.g. Calculator Plus, or whatever), just change the folder\file referenced.
(You could also use this same technique to replace notepad.exe with Notepad++ or whatever other various replacements from stock Windows apps that you might want. Note, however, that Windows may likely reset your settings anytime there's a major build update, e.g., one of Microsoft's big every-six-months build updates.)
execthts: Thank you! Windows users greeted the tablet/phone centric changes of Windows 8 like the proverbial turd in a punchbowl.
Desktops/laptops with keyboard and mice allow you to have considerably more complex and powerful applications. And desktop/laptop users do NOT want touch interfaces.
If Apple's push here means that Macs can run iOS apps, then that's reasonably laudable and will probably be welcomed by Mac users.
If Apple wants to dumb down Macs to an iOS level interface, however, users will be very, very unhappy, and rightly so.
Also supported on Roku devices (but not Amazon Fire devices).
It's missing a few key channels still (History, A&E). But has my major local channels.
CW annoyingly requires recorded shows to be replaced (I think after a day or so) with their on-demand feeds. That means you can't skip the commercials. (But not sure if other cloud TV providers have the same problem.)
Love the unlimited DVR feature -- that's the real reason I picked YouTubeTV.
US carriers often (usually?) won't let phones from pay-as-you-go or virtual carriers register unless the phones are a year (maybe two) old.
So a newer phone from Total Wireless (a virtual carrier using Verizon's network) can't be registered on Verizon.
The major carriers don't want the cheap, somewhat subsidized phones from these pay-as-you-go services cannibalizing their more expensive authorized phones. (Especially if those phones are from the big carriers' own pay-as-you-go services.)
However, the carriers generally allow unlocked, unaffiliated phones. Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T all allow this. Just buy an unlocked and non-carrier locked phone. It's not that hard. As I posted above (anonymously -- signed in for this post), unlocked and carrier-agnostic phones are readily available on Amazon on other online merchants.
I got a cheap ($100) unlocked Moto E4+ from Amazon back in January. I'm extremely happy with it. Snappy, decent screen. OK, maybe not the greatest camera. But as a budget Android phone it couldn't be better. People buying phones for $900 just seem insane to me. (Or they have corporate phones, so they aren't paying for it themselves.)
How about the patch where it really matters: on servers? Will this patch be available on Server 2016? Server 2019? 2012 R2? (OK, not really expecting it on 2012 R2 or earlier, but one can hope.)
Server 2016 and Windows 10 share (or at least used to share) a lot of the same codebase, so one would think Server 2016 could be patched here fairly easily.
And that this won't happen until the next Windows 10 release (probably April 2019)? Absolutely ridiculous. Get it out. NOW.
The Chinese economy is not doing well, however. There are lots of propping up the system artificially by the government. Infrastructure programs that aren't really needed. Restricting Chinese citizens from investing abroad. Costs are rising as workers demand more pay. Corruption is rampant, imposing costs and increasing risks.
This can't continue indefinitely. The softer side of Chinese Communism let its people (well, unless you're a Tibetan, Uighur, member of Fallon Gong, or some other "radical" troublemaker) exercise greater liberties and self-control. But it still left a single-party authoritarian government in place. And, yes, with huge economic gains, the favored masses were willing to ignore that their liberties were still very limited. That the state could be capricious and tyrannical. That people could lose their jobs, lose their property, suffer forced sterilization, be put into labor or re-education camps, or just disappear (be quietly killed).
With economic gains slowing or perhaps even reversing, then this social contract, even with the literal guns to their heads, might no longer stand.
Google holds itself out as being politically neutral, but the Dalmore case, reinforced by this weeks released post-Trump win/Hillary loss tape, show that they're anything but neutral. They're hardcore leftists, and are open and willing to adjust search results to benefit the left and the Democratic Party. Favored sites and stories get more prominent search results. Disfavored ones end up on search page 3 or 4. And may not show at all. It's not so much that they're leftists, but that they're frauds and hypocrites. Meanwhile, to way too many users, Google is perceived as disinterested and trustworthy on such topics, and thus sways opinion to the left.
Google monitors you whenever you search with them, use Gmail, do almost anything with your Android phone, etc. They are monetizing their users on a scale never seen before anywhere (OK, outside Facebook...). A lot of that I use, and find very useful. But I'm starting to really question if all this otherwise great "free stuff" that I use is worth the tradeoffs.
And, now they're complicit in building a crippled, censored, and reporting search engine for the Chinese Communist government. That's the same government that has killed some 100M+ people through war, forced starvation, imprisonment, etc. since Mao took charge in 1949.
Yeah, the moto now is basically: "Be evil, and let's make LOTS of money doing it!"
At this point, I'm not certain I really trust Google on non-political search terms, either. If they have an interest in the terms (e.g., self-driving cars, online advertising, mobile phones, tablets, email systems, Linux, iOS, Chromebooks, Android, etc.), then shouldn't we expect that they are massaging the data there as well?
Venezuela is slouching into becoming a failed and bankrupt state. It's the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere. It's a complete shithole.
Australia did a gun buy back. Maybe 15-20% of the gun owners complied. Unless you're willing to kick doors down and massively violate civil rights, then the plebes will still have guns. Just quietly.
Venezuela, as a basically Communist country, would have no problem with those civil rights violations. Murder and terror through government-supported gangs are part of official policy. Courts are tools of the state. Civil rights basically don't exist. So they *could* pull it off, unlike Australia.
Wholeheartedly agree. And US courts, left or right, are not going to support this potential law. It will be tied up in lawsuits and ultimately struck down as against the First Amendment.
This also has nothing to do with child porn, revenge porn, any non-consensual porn, or any other sexually explicit videos that would not be covered by the First Amendment protections.
Leaving out the missile launcher (and tanks, artillery, land mines, bomber aircraft, etc.), the Second Amendment *does* grant US residents and citizens (with some exceptions) a right to keep and bear arms.
The US Supreme Court ruled so in the Heller case. If you don't like that, get a new amendment. Or win a bunch of elections over a decade or more and change the orientation of the Supreme Court.
You don't. That's an exception to the rule. Sort of. That Mac almost certainly isn't networked. Which eliminates the security issues.
But if/when it dies, the company better be ready to deal with it and the possible risk. (Best to buy another MacSE off eBay, and have it as a cold spare just in case. Would be dirt cheap insurance.)
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News stories have also reported how medical residents make frequent medical mistakes, as they're often too tired to think properly.
My main system is still on 1803. At this point, skipping 1809 and going straight to the Spring 2019 release probably makes much more sense.
I'm assuming many others are in similar situations.
Plastic straws/knives/plates/etc. make up a tiny portion of plastic waste. Europe (and the US) make up a tiny portion of ocean plastic waste. Almost all is from Asia and Africa.
So the net change to this is near zero. This is all virtue signaling and will have no real change to pollution.
Meanwhile, it will inconvenience hundreds of millions of people.
Absolute bovine excrement.
I'd bet they charge $8/month for that streaming box, and that you can only rent it, not buy it.
Still -- maybe? I have Comcast for internet only. It might work for me.
Related info here...
The Win10 calculator has an awful UI. It's huge -- much bigger than it needs to be. As others here have noted, it also starts slowly, since it's a Windows Store app and not a normal Win32 program. As others here have also noted, it may not work at all if your network's firewall blocks Windows Store access. (Or you remove the Windows Store from Windows.)
So, replace the darn thing. There are lots of other Windows calculator programs out there. (My favorite is Moffset FreeCalc: http://www.moffsoft.com/freeca.... It may not be visually the most beautiful either, but it doesn't take up tons of screen real estate, it's fast, and it does everything I need. And it's free.)
And if you want, you can do some registry hacks so any attempts to run calc.exe instead run Moffset FreeCalc, or whatever is your calculator of choice.
My batch here is also easily adjustable to open a different calculator (e.g. Calculator Plus, or whatever), just change the folder\file referenced.
(You could also use this same technique to replace notepad.exe with Notepad++ or whatever other various replacements from stock Windows apps that you might want. Note, however, that Windows may likely reset your settings anytime there's a major build update, e.g., one of Microsoft's big every-six-months build updates.)
Batch file posted here in Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/a8na7k4d
At a concert once, someone 5-6 rows ahead of me was doing the lit lighter thing during a song. Along with hundreds if not thousands of others.
Then his lighter catastrophically failed, shooting a small fireball into the sky.
That was fun. (Well, probably not for that person so much...)
execthts: Thank you! Windows users greeted the tablet/phone centric changes of Windows 8 like the proverbial turd in a punchbowl.
Desktops/laptops with keyboard and mice allow you to have considerably more complex and powerful applications. And desktop/laptop users do NOT want touch interfaces.
If Apple's push here means that Macs can run iOS apps, then that's reasonably laudable and will probably be welcomed by Mac users.
If Apple wants to dumb down Macs to an iOS level interface, however, users will be very, very unhappy, and rightly so.
So $90B is going to be spent here, with a good portion of that subsidizing renewable electricity prices.
So Germans won't be paying more in electricity, but they will in taxes.
That's just hiding the costs somewhere else.
Don't want dirty coal? OK. Unfortunately, renewable energy is expensive. Solar also works poorly in snowy, rainy, and cold Germany.
So do nuclear -- which is clean -- but they won't do it because they're phobic. Or hydro, but nobody seems to like hydro anymore.
So, yes, time to just buy it from the neighbors who don't base their electrical generation on unicorns and pixie dust.
Also supported on Roku devices (but not Amazon Fire devices).
It's missing a few key channels still (History, A&E). But has my major local channels.
CW annoyingly requires recorded shows to be replaced (I think after a day or so) with their on-demand feeds. That means you can't skip the commercials. (But not sure if other cloud TV providers have the same problem.)
Love the unlimited DVR feature -- that's the real reason I picked YouTubeTV.
Run Pi-Hole instead and point your DNS to your Pi-Hole system?
https://pi-hole.net/
Pi-Hole doesn't have to run on a Raspberry Pi. Run a small VM, another Linux box, etc.
I have a home server running a Ubuntu VM alongside a bunch of Windows systems, so Pi-Hole would work for me.
Still, way more overhead and complexity than uBlock Origin.
Pichai's law? Page's law?
US carriers often (usually?) won't let phones from pay-as-you-go or virtual carriers register unless the phones are a year (maybe two) old.
So a newer phone from Total Wireless (a virtual carrier using Verizon's network) can't be registered on Verizon.
The major carriers don't want the cheap, somewhat subsidized phones from these pay-as-you-go services cannibalizing their more expensive authorized phones. (Especially if those phones are from the big carriers' own pay-as-you-go services.)
However, the carriers generally allow unlocked, unaffiliated phones. Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T all allow this. Just buy an unlocked and non-carrier locked phone. It's not that hard. As I posted above (anonymously -- signed in for this post), unlocked and carrier-agnostic phones are readily available on Amazon on other online merchants.
Actually, the cell phone, car, cable, and airline industries have nothing on the health industry on obfuscating pricing.
I got a cheap ($100) unlocked Moto E4+ from Amazon back in January. I'm extremely happy with it. Snappy, decent screen. OK, maybe not the greatest camera. But as a budget Android phone it couldn't be better. People buying phones for $900 just seem insane to me. (Or they have corporate phones, so they aren't paying for it themselves.)
How about the patch where it really matters: on servers? Will this patch be available on Server 2016? Server 2019? 2012 R2? (OK, not really expecting it on 2012 R2 or earlier, but one can hope.)
Server 2016 and Windows 10 share (or at least used to share) a lot of the same codebase, so one would think Server 2016 could be patched here fairly easily.
And that this won't happen until the next Windows 10 release (probably April 2019)? Absolutely ridiculous. Get it out. NOW.
The Chinese economy is not doing well, however. There are lots of propping up the system artificially by the government. Infrastructure programs that aren't really needed. Restricting Chinese citizens from investing abroad. Costs are rising as workers demand more pay. Corruption is rampant, imposing costs and increasing risks.
This can't continue indefinitely. The softer side of Chinese Communism let its people (well, unless you're a Tibetan, Uighur, member of Fallon Gong, or some other "radical" troublemaker) exercise greater liberties and self-control. But it still left a single-party authoritarian government in place. And, yes, with huge economic gains, the favored masses were willing to ignore that their liberties were still very limited. That the state could be capricious and tyrannical. That people could lose their jobs, lose their property, suffer forced sterilization, be put into labor or re-education camps, or just disappear (be quietly killed).
With economic gains slowing or perhaps even reversing, then this social contract, even with the literal guns to their heads, might no longer stand.
Ooops... Too late...
Google holds itself out as being politically neutral, but the Dalmore case, reinforced by this weeks released post-Trump win/Hillary loss tape, show that they're anything but neutral. They're hardcore leftists, and are open and willing to adjust search results to benefit the left and the Democratic Party. Favored sites and stories get more prominent search results. Disfavored ones end up on search page 3 or 4. And may not show at all. It's not so much that they're leftists, but that they're frauds and hypocrites. Meanwhile, to way too many users, Google is perceived as disinterested and trustworthy on such topics, and thus sways opinion to the left.
Google monitors you whenever you search with them, use Gmail, do almost anything with your Android phone, etc. They are monetizing their users on a scale never seen before anywhere (OK, outside Facebook...). A lot of that I use, and find very useful. But I'm starting to really question if all this otherwise great "free stuff" that I use is worth the tradeoffs.
And, now they're complicit in building a crippled, censored, and reporting search engine for the Chinese Communist government. That's the same government that has killed some 100M+ people through war, forced starvation, imprisonment, etc. since Mao took charge in 1949.
Yeah, the moto now is basically: "Be evil, and let's make LOTS of money doing it!"
At this point, I'm not certain I really trust Google on non-political search terms, either. If they have an interest in the terms (e.g., self-driving cars, online advertising, mobile phones, tablets, email systems, Linux, iOS, Chromebooks, Android, etc.), then shouldn't we expect that they are massaging the data there as well?
Venezuela is slouching into becoming a failed and bankrupt state. It's the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere. It's a complete shithole.
Australia did a gun buy back. Maybe 15-20% of the gun owners complied. Unless you're willing to kick doors down and massively violate civil rights, then the plebes will still have guns. Just quietly.
Venezuela, as a basically Communist country, would have no problem with those civil rights violations. Murder and terror through government-supported gangs are part of official policy. Courts are tools of the state. Civil rights basically don't exist. So they *could* pull it off, unlike Australia.
Wholeheartedly agree. And US courts, left or right, are not going to support this potential law. It will be tied up in lawsuits and ultimately struck down as against the First Amendment.
This also has nothing to do with child porn, revenge porn, any non-consensual porn, or any other sexually explicit videos that would not be covered by the First Amendment protections.
Leaving out the missile launcher (and tanks, artillery, land mines, bomber aircraft, etc.), the Second Amendment *does* grant US residents and citizens (with some exceptions) a right to keep and bear arms.
The US Supreme Court ruled so in the Heller case. If you don't like that, get a new amendment. Or win a bunch of elections over a decade or more and change the orientation of the Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, your bosses may feel otherwise. If there's isn't a way to easily expense that $500 widget, then you're stuck doing that 3 day job.
This is horribly inefficient, but this is often typical of corporate America.
You don't. That's an exception to the rule. Sort of. That Mac almost certainly isn't networked. Which eliminates the security issues.
But if/when it dies, the company better be ready to deal with it and the possible risk. (Best to buy another MacSE off eBay, and have it as a cold spare just in case. Would be dirt cheap insurance.)
No, you fix it (replace it, migrate it) before support ends. It's a lot easier to replace/migrate something while you can still get it supported.
And if fails after support ends, then you can be royally FUBAR.
Given that you can add Windows Media Player back in, then title of this story is incorrect.
WMP has not been removed, it's been made a non-default application ("Feature on Demand"). You can still add it back in fairly easily.
Maybe Microsoft is planning on completely removing it in the long term, but they haven't removed it yet.
It's still annoying. Users still use WMP and this is likely to cause a lot of confusion.
Unfortunately, the spammers will have their own AIs as well.
The conflict will just get nastier and nastier.