From TFS: "When Microsoft first launched Windows 10, it was generally well-received"
By whom?
By Microsoft. They basically broke an arm jerking themselves off -- to borrow a phrase from Rick Sanchez -- congratulating themselves on how wonderful Win 10 was.
"Microsoft is launching what it calls a (web-based) privacy dashboard..."
Why does it have to be web-based? Was it too fucking hard to build it into the Control Panel or Settings app?
Because your system will still send all the data to the MS cloud, but they will only use that data based on your settings there. I imagine they will still save all the data so if you ever allow something to be used (or they change their policies) all the historical data will already be there (just a guess though). If they were *really* serious, then, yes, they would provide local controls to prevent said data from being uploaded in the first place.
If it's true. (I'm not saying it's untrue, just that it's an unsubstantiated, unverified claim.)
We don't really gain much either way from doubting it, and it is substantiated that she has put a lot of time and effort into the project. So from that alone she deserves respect.
I agree but... From what I've read here (and other places) Leah wrote those statements herself (in the third person, for some reason) and self-made claims should always be viewed with a certain skepticism. The initial release of the software was in Dec 2013 (three years ago). Spending $100k of personal money over such a short time period is a feat of dedication and, if true, deserves respect, but it seems a little dubious - unless she's really well off financially. As such, the rest of her emotional self commentary is also a little suspect as mere puffery - especially given the charged context of the FSF / Libreboot thing. That's all I'm saying.
I don't know much about the situation, but look at this quote:
[The Libreboot maintainer] Leah Rowe has even spent in excess of 100,000 USD of her own money to have new hardware ported to both coreboot and libreboot, to further the cause. She has spent countless sleepness days and night to keep this project afloat.
That's hardcore. She deserves respect for her hard work and contribution.
If it's true. (I'm not saying it's untrue, just that it's an unsubstantiated, unverified claim.)
Or to quote Neil De Grasse Tyson: "It's basic physics. If you keep adding energy to a system, but you slow down the rate at which the energy can leave the system then the system gets hotter".
Screaming kids, people getting up and squeezing out through the row of seats, and then back again later, and cell phones, and people talking, and telling their life story, along with narrating the film, people kicking the back of your seat, throwing popcorn . ..
I'm 53 and have never - and I mean never - experienced most of the above and the few other minor cases (people coming/going or quiet talking) were not bothersome. Of course, I've lived in Virginia Beach since 1982 and I've only ever gone to morning and afternoon viewings and have never been to an evening show.
Then, according to the CERN writing guidelines (and others) that would be "titanium-gold" so bzzzt... thanks for playing:-)
Chemical compounds
Chemical compounds and alloys should be hyphenated, but the elements should not be capitalised:
The current in the dipole magnets is carried by cables made of niobium-titanium (NbTi).
They might as well have offered it in Titanium Gold and Gold Titanium.
Reminds me of when I had a 1969 VW Beetle. They have one double-arrow dashboard indicator for the turn signal, with only one bulb. A friend once asked how do you know if it's indicating left or right? I said, completely seriously, for left it blinks off first then on and for right it blinks on first then off. He stared at me looking really confused. I went through it twice more before he realized it was BS. Good times...
People that work in ERs, or once worked there, are the most likely to ask for "Do Not Resuscitate" or DNR orders when they are hospitalized.
When my wife Sue was diagnosed with fatal brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving 2005, she completed a health-care proxy (living will) stating that no extraordinary measures should be used and a DNR. When her brain stem was damaged six weeks later, she fell into a coma and I had the fun task of re-asserting her DNR. She died a week later on Jan 13, 2006. Sue was a teacher so, instead of donating her organs, she donated her body to science. She was only 61 (I was then 42) and in excellent health (other than the brain tumor) and most donors are much older and in poorer health, so the Virginia Anatomical Program was very happy to have her (so to speak).
I have also completed a living will and healthcare proxy form and registered them with the U.S. Living Will Registry specifying no extraordinary measures and registered with the Virginia State Anatomical Program to have my body donated to science.
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They got dinged on their Employee Review for *not* watching porn at work.
Now my PC will be watching me at the keyboard. What's next, having it watch me sleep?
And... Just to throw in my $0.02, both the Windows "Hello" and proposed "Goodbye" features sound pretty troublesome.
... as you're also surrounded by female hormones until birth.
And the you get married and have a daughter and you're surrounded yet again until... the day... you die.
[ P.S. I wouldn't have it any other way... ]
From TFS: "When Microsoft first launched Windows 10, it was generally well-received"
By whom?
By Microsoft. They basically broke an arm jerking themselves off -- to borrow a phrase from Rick Sanchez -- congratulating themselves on how wonderful Win 10 was.
"Microsoft is launching what it calls a (web-based) privacy dashboard..."
Why does it have to be web-based? Was it too fucking hard to build it into the Control Panel or Settings app?
Because your system will still send all the data to the MS cloud, but they will only use that data based on your settings there. I imagine they will still save all the data so if you ever allow something to be used (or they change their policies) all the historical data will already be there (just a guess though). If they were *really* serious, then, yes, they would provide local controls to prevent said data from being uploaded in the first place.
Yeap. You are correct. But having a default position of being generous with respect is also good.
Agreed. (and a good point for all parties involved in this FSF / Libreboot kerfuffle to remember.)
Happy New Year.
Is that like DistroWatch, but where people track and rank nerds?
If it's true. (I'm not saying it's untrue, just that it's an unsubstantiated, unverified claim.)
We don't really gain much either way from doubting it, and it is substantiated that she has put a lot of time and effort into the project. So from that alone she deserves respect.
I agree but... From what I've read here (and other places) Leah wrote those statements herself (in the third person, for some reason) and self-made claims should always be viewed with a certain skepticism. The initial release of the software was in Dec 2013 (three years ago). Spending $100k of personal money over such a short time period is a feat of dedication and, if true, deserves respect, but it seems a little dubious - unless she's really well off financially. As such, the rest of her emotional self commentary is also a little suspect as mere puffery - especially given the charged context of the FSF / Libreboot thing. That's all I'm saying.
I don't know much about the situation, but look at this quote:
[The Libreboot maintainer] Leah Rowe has even spent in excess of 100,000 USD of her own money to have new hardware ported to both coreboot and libreboot, to further the cause. She has spent countless sleepness days and night to keep this project afloat.
That's hardcore. She deserves respect for her hard work and contribution.
If it's true. (I'm not saying it's untrue, just that it's an unsubstantiated, unverified claim.)
For one thing systemD is not a file system
Not yet, so shut up and don't give them any ideas.
They should have dialed it up to eleven - speakers.
These people can't tell the difference between "correcting for a known measurement problem" and "lying".
They're politicians; they can't tell the difference between "lying" and "_____________________".
Or to quote Neil De Grasse Tyson: "It's basic physics. If you keep adding energy to a system, but you slow down the rate at which the energy can leave the system then the system gets hotter".
Neil has the best geek pick-up lines.
Thanks CA !
Screaming kids, people getting up and squeezing out through the row of seats, and then back again later, and cell phones, and people talking, and telling their life story, along with narrating the film, people kicking the back of your seat, throwing popcorn . . .
I'm 53 and have never - and I mean never - experienced most of the above and the few other minor cases (people coming/going or quiet talking) were not bothersome. Of course, I've lived in Virginia Beach since 1982 and I've only ever gone to morning and afternoon viewings and have never been to an evening show.
Alloy
Then, according to the CERN writing guidelines (and others) that would be "titanium-gold" so bzzzt... thanks for playing :-)
Chemical compounds
Chemical compounds and alloys should be hyphenated, but the elements should not be capitalised:
The current in the dipole magnets is carried by cables made of niobium-titanium (NbTi).
They might as well have offered it in Titanium Gold and Gold Titanium.
Reminds me of when I had a 1969 VW Beetle. They have one double-arrow dashboard indicator for the turn signal, with only one bulb. A friend once asked how do you know if it's indicating left or right? I said, completely seriously, for left it blinks off first then on and for right it blinks on first then off. He stared at me looking really confused. I went through it twice more before he realized it was BS. Good times...
The Norton Core comes in titanium gold and granite gray.
I hate marketing people.
I would say that someone choosing to video chat on their phone while driving a car is 99% the main factor in that automotive crash.
Absolutely, and Apple is being sued because it has a bigger pocketbook than the video-chatting driver or his family.
"and then claim they assumed you had not opted out because they "couldn't find" an opt-out record for you?"
For the paranoids, I offer a 'Not an organ donor!" tattoo for your sternum for only $99.99
Just don't give those to people who ride motorcycles w/o a helmet 'cause it can cause a paradox in the space-time continuum.
People that work in ERs, or once worked there, are the most likely to ask for "Do Not Resuscitate" or DNR orders when they are hospitalized.
When my wife Sue was diagnosed with fatal brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving 2005, she completed a health-care proxy (living will) stating that no extraordinary measures should be used and a DNR. When her brain stem was damaged six weeks later, she fell into a coma and I had the fun task of re-asserting her DNR. She died a week later on Jan 13, 2006. Sue was a teacher so, instead of donating her organs, she donated her body to science. She was only 61 (I was then 42) and in excellent health (other than the brain tumor) and most donors are much older and in poorer health, so the Virginia Anatomical Program was very happy to have her (so to speak).
I have also completed a living will and healthcare proxy form and registered them with the U.S. Living Will Registry specifying no extraordinary measures and registered with the Virginia State Anatomical Program to have my body donated to science.
Water isn't an element.
It's one of the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and aether since, like, forever - duh.
What are your bets guys?
Ever read Ice Station by Matt Reilly? Researchers found something under the ice in Antarctica too.
... the incidents of brown noses is expected to rise dramatically after January 20, 2017.
Rio Tinto uses driverless trucks provided by Japan's Komatsu.
Damn foreign trucks stealing our jobs. :-)