I don't back up daily, more like weekly, plus whenever I have a rash of new data. I keep the backup drive unplugged except when backing up, and never in s thunderstorm. Losing my non-backed up data would only hurt a little, it isn't like I'll lose a 10,000 customer database or anything.
Before I retired, backups were automatically done daily by software. I had to change the backup tapes weekly.
Those were all bad presidents. My grandmother, born in 1903, said Coolidge caused the depression but Hoover was a terrible president, too. Most historians consider Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan,.was history's worse.
I never thought I'd ever see a worse president than Carter, but GW proved me wrong.
You can always kill the phone's sound before bed, and check messages when you get up. You kids just don't understand that answering your phone, whether talk, text, email, amber alert, or presidential alert is NOT MANDATORY. If you're driving, leave the damned thing in your pocket, whoever is attempting contact can wait until you get where you're going.
Stop being a slave to your phone!
If it looks like there may be tornadoes that night, you might want to let the presidential/amber alerts annoy you.
Previewing this, I laughed; this font makes "tornadoes" look like "tomadoes" (I've seen "tomatoes" misspelled like that before).
Do you work for Maxtor or something? I've had hard drives for decades, few have failed and the failures weren't brand specific, and all were old when they died.
Did you have it sitting next to a heater vent or something? Solid state electronics hate heat. I've had a 3TB Seagate for a couple of years now.
I do avoid Sony like the plague, because if you buy digital electronics from someone who deliberately vandalized your PC with malware that came on a Sony-BMG music CD your daughter bought in a record store, you're a fucking moron.
Samsung? Did it catch fire and explode, or just stop working? Either way, you should back up your data, but I would NOT suggest the cloud. Just buy a second drive to back up the first.
Everyone has one and they are very useful. You should get one too.
Perhaps I'm a victim of Poe's Law, but that sentence is something I'd expect to hear from Trump; the second sentence directly contradicts the first. If everyone has one, nobody needs to get one.
STUPID STUPID STUPID, Annoyingly stupid. And possibly spam.
No, I do not have an Echo for the same reason I have no stores' "rewards cards"--I think being stalked by corporations is even creepier than being stalked by human beings,
There's no way in hell I'll buy a HD that automatically sends my data to someone else's systems. I have a 3TB extranal network drive to back up my computers, when they're full I'll buy another drive.
I don't trust anyone with my data, especially corporations.
The aliteracy is annoying. "It's" is a contraction for "it is". "Its" is the posessive: He's there She's there It's there His car is broken Her tire is flat. Its OS is screwed up
Do none of you ever read books??? I expect this is comments, but NOT in a summary. If that mistake was in TFA, it is NOT a reputable publication.
I don't understand why eye tracking is necessary at all. In a pre-digital physics class (late '70s) we had holograms. They consisted of photographic film with moire patterns. They needed no eye tracking, and in fact that tech came decades later.
Oh, wait--I just figured it out. The eye tracking is to make sure what you're seeing is what they want you to see. With a film hologram, it's like looking out a window. The eye tracking keeps you at the middle of the window. So this will likely be not for large TVs, but phone or tablet sized devices.
The linked article and submission got one thing bass askwards. Holograms aren't like Star Wars. With a hologram, the image is behind the screen, not in front. It's true 3D, not just stereoscopy like today's "3D". Holograms are completely 3D, again, like looking out a window.
I take it you've never read Niven's A World Out of Time or Heinlein's Time for the Stars. Those are two off the top of my head. Are you one of those kids who hates to read and only watches movies? Because when it comes to TV and movies, most SF is terrible.
Hell, look at The Martian. Wier did his homework, I saw nothing in the book that was bogus science. The movie? Guys, when you're in the airlock entering the station, the alarm will start out soft and low pitched, and the volume and pitch will rise with air pressure.
That said, it was an excellent movie, but it can't hold a candle to the book. The movie has a few grins, the book has belly laughs.
Books rule.
Oh, yeah--a thousand years is the blink of an eye in geologic time. Sirius (only 8 LY away) and its system won't change any more than the sun and solar system did in the last thousand. But yeah, if you see a supernova, that part of space will be completely changed when you get there. Also, if you speak to someone on the phone you can expect their house to still be there when you arrive, unless there's been a gas explosion. Same thing. Travel to other galaxies? Yes, it will be fifferent.
I swore off buying used computer equipment two weeks ago. I got a Samsung tablet at a pawn shop for a little over $100 a few months ago. Its CPU failed two weeks ago, and there's really no repairing a tablet or laptop.
I don't know if Acer still makes Aspire Ones any more, but Kubuntu works on mine better than Windows does. Unfortunately, KDE "Windows eighted" its desktop. I'm looking for a distro with a less insane, more customizable interface.
I'm also trying to find one that will run on a Gateway 450 laptop (It and my HP laptop are really too big for a lap).
McDonald's Hamburger 12 cents Pepsi 10 cents candy bar 5 cents Cigarettes 25 cents Gasoline 25 cents Ajax Cleaner 15 cents Alka Selzer 39 cents Apples 14 cents per pound Bananas 12 cents per pound Bathroom Tissue 13 cents Birds Eye Cool whip 38 cents Campbells Tomato Soup 10 cents Clorox bleach 38 cents Dogs Food $1.00 for 12 cans Fresh Beef Liver 49 Cents per pound Frozen Vegetables 25 cents for 2 pks Ground Round 79 Cents per pound Head and Shoulder Shampoo 79 cents Heinz ketchup 19 cents Idaho Potatoes 98 cents for 10 pounds
Miniimum wage was $1.40. So why is it not $14 today? And why do pennies and nickles still exist?...
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Stupid slashdot, those were spacers to make the post more readable. Now gone, idiots. Happy?
Not only that, but there are still dealers who will only take cash. The bar I go to takes only cash and checks, although there is an ATM, which dispenses... cash. A lot of bars and other places are like that because it costs the vendor a buck or two per transaction if a credit card is used. Do you really think the banking industry will let Apple kill their cash generating machines? Banks make tons of money from ATMs.
The statement is literally brainless; no thought whatever was put to it, unless you consider wishing for unicorns "thinking".
Well, when I was 16-24yrs, I was into and enjoyed high fidelity stereo....my friends all did as well.
Er, not unless your parents and friends' parents were very well off, or all of them were in the military and bought their equipment duty-free in Asia you didn't. Before digital, in America a high fidelity stereo (let alone quadraphonic system) would cost your a couple grand.
I used to have an audiophile-quality system I bought stationed in Thailand, but it was stolen in a burglary. I have a pair of JBLs now, three way with twelve inch woofers. I miss my old stereo.
But I rip from YouTube occasionally, and rip from KSHE every Sunday night when they play six full albums. With Windows all it takes is Audacity and a setting in mmsys.cpl to capture a signal sent to your sound card, you don't need those goofs' web site.
I make CDs from KSHE's albums for the car, and they sound as good as factory CDs -- in the car. Their difference in quality in the house with the JBLs is marginal. It's a LOT better sound than a cassette recorded at home.
If you're in St. Louis (I'm not) you can plug your digital FM radio's "out" jacks into your computer's input jacks and you actually will have CD quality music.
"...applications who is sole aim..." HUH? Is English a second language for you? I think the word you want is whose.
I hear they stopped teaching grammar in grammar school, is this true? I've certainly seen more grocer's apostrophes and misused homophones (like whose who's, there's theirs, etc) in the last ten years than in the previous half century.
Where's my fridge? How about not running the compressor when it's well below freezing outside? How about venting the heat outside instead of into the kitchen when it's sweltering outside?
Indeed. Most IoT stuff, like his fridge, are really stupid. Like the IoT kitchen stove you can turn on with your phone... WTF??? You DON'T want the stove on when you're not home!
Adjust the A/C with a phone? What, you're too damned lazy to walk across the room? Stupid! If I can turn off the heat with my phone, so can the FSB.
I may have to buy a TV even though the one I have works perfectly fine, because it may not be long before you can no longer buy a dumb TV.
It's bad enough that my computers and phone are hackable, I don't want anything else I own on the internet at all.
Try shutting a few things off. On my phone, when I use my bluetooth speaker, half the time it will reboot itself because Google decides that's exactly when it should update an app I never use and wish I could remove. I found that shutting off wi-fi makes it crash less.
And just what part of your ass did you pull that "statistic" from?
Oh, BTW, you may be running Linux or BSD yourself and not even know it -- Android is Linux and Apple is BSD. In fact, about the only computers that aren't running BSD or Linux are Windows desktops and laptops.
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I don't back up daily, more like weekly, plus whenever I have a rash of new data. I keep the backup drive unplugged except when backing up, and never in s thunderstorm. Losing my non-backed up data would only hurt a little, it isn't like I'll lose a 10,000 customer database or anything.
Before I retired, backups were automatically done daily by software. I had to change the backup tapes weekly.
Those were all bad presidents. My grandmother, born in 1903, said Coolidge caused the depression but Hoover was a terrible president, too. Most historians consider Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan, .was history's worse.
I never thought I'd ever see a worse president than Carter, but GW proved me wrong.
Waste of money when aluminum foil works.
You can always kill the phone's sound before bed, and check messages when you get up. You kids just don't understand that answering your phone, whether talk, text, email, amber alert, or presidential alert is NOT MANDATORY. If you're driving, leave the damned thing in your pocket, whoever is attempting contact can wait until you get where you're going.
Stop being a slave to your phone!
If it looks like there may be tornadoes that night, you might want to let the presidential/amber alerts annoy you.
Previewing this, I laughed; this font makes "tornadoes" look like "tomadoes" (I've seen "tomatoes" misspelled like that before).
Do you work for Maxtor or something? I've had hard drives for decades, few have failed and the failures weren't brand specific, and all were old when they died.
Did you have it sitting next to a heater vent or something? Solid state electronics hate heat. I've had a 3TB Seagate for a couple of years now.
I do avoid Sony like the plague, because if you buy digital electronics from someone who deliberately vandalized your PC with malware that came on a Sony-BMG music CD your daughter bought in a record store, you're a fucking moron.
Samsung? Did it catch fire and explode, or just stop working? Either way, you should back up your data, but I would NOT suggest the cloud. Just buy a second drive to back up the first.
Everyone has one and they are very useful. You should get one too.
Perhaps I'm a victim of Poe's Law, but that sentence is something I'd expect to hear from Trump; the second sentence directly contradicts the first. If everyone has one, nobody needs to get one.
STUPID STUPID STUPID, Annoyingly stupid. And possibly spam.
No, I do not have an Echo for the same reason I have no stores' "rewards cards"--I think being stalked by corporations is even creepier than being stalked by human beings,
There's no way in hell I'll buy a HD that automatically sends my data to someone else's systems. I have a 3TB extranal network drive to back up my computers, when they're full I'll buy another drive.
I don't trust anyone with my data, especially corporations.
The aliteracy is annoying. "It's" is a contraction for "it is". "Its" is the posessive:
He's there
She's there
It's there
His car is broken
Her tire is flat.
Its OS is screwed up
Do none of you ever read books??? I expect this is comments, but NOT in a summary. If that mistake was in TFA, it is NOT a reputable publication.
I don't understand why eye tracking is necessary at all. In a pre-digital physics class (late '70s) we had holograms. They consisted of photographic film with moire patterns. They needed no eye tracking, and in fact that tech came decades later.
Oh, wait--I just figured it out. The eye tracking is to make sure what you're seeing is what they want you to see. With a film hologram, it's like looking out a window. The eye tracking keeps you at the middle of the window. So this will likely be not for large TVs, but phone or tablet sized devices.
The linked article and submission got one thing bass askwards. Holograms aren't like Star Wars. With a hologram, the image is behind the screen, not in front. It's true 3D, not just stereoscopy like today's "3D". Holograms are completely 3D, again, like looking out a window.
This is something sci-fi never fully discloses:
I take it you've never read Niven's A World Out of Time or Heinlein's Time for the Stars. Those are two off the top of my head. Are you one of those kids who hates to read and only watches movies? Because when it comes to TV and movies, most SF is terrible.
Hell, look at The Martian. Wier did his homework, I saw nothing in the book that was bogus science. The movie? Guys, when you're in the airlock entering the station, the alarm will start out soft and low pitched, and the volume and pitch will rise with air pressure.
That said, it was an excellent movie, but it can't hold a candle to the book. The movie has a few grins, the book has belly laughs.
Books rule.
Oh, yeah--a thousand years is the blink of an eye in geologic time. Sirius (only 8 LY away) and its system won't change any more than the sun and solar system did in the last thousand. But yeah, if you see a supernova, that part of space will be completely changed when you get there. Also, if you speak to someone on the phone you can expect their house to still be there when you arrive, unless there's been a gas explosion. Same thing. Travel to other galaxies? Yes, it will be fifferent.
Then they're moderators, not editors. Mistakes like that smack of rank amateurism. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing such a terrible job.
And when will we be able to paste a paragraph from a newspaper without the text being mangled? This isn't the slashdot I used to know.
If they don't edit, they shouldn't be called editors. To not edit a front page story is about as far from professional as you can get.
Is slashdot farming its editing out to China? Either that, or you misspelled "for". Bad grammar is fine in a comment, NOT in a story or headline.
I swore off buying used computer equipment two weeks ago. I got a Samsung tablet at a pawn shop for a little over $100 a few months ago. Its CPU failed two weeks ago, and there's really no repairing a tablet or laptop.
I don't know if Acer still makes Aspire Ones any more, but Kubuntu works on mine better than Windows does. Unfortunately, KDE "Windows eighted" its desktop. I'm looking for a distro with a less insane, more customizable interface.
I'm also trying to find one that will run on a Gateway 450 laptop (It and my HP laptop are really too big for a lap).
Today's dime was 1970's penny. 1970 prices:
McDonald's Hamburger 12 cents
Pepsi 10 cents
candy bar 5 cents
Cigarettes 25 cents
Gasoline 25 cents
Ajax Cleaner 15 cents
Alka Selzer 39 cents
Apples 14 cents per pound
Bananas 12 cents per pound
Bathroom Tissue 13 cents
Birds Eye Cool whip 38 cents
Campbells Tomato Soup 10 cents
Clorox bleach 38 cents
Dogs Food $1.00 for 12 cans
Fresh Beef Liver 49 Cents per pound
Frozen Vegetables 25 cents for 2 pks
Ground Round 79 Cents per pound
Head and Shoulder Shampoo 79 cents
Heinz ketchup 19 cents
Idaho Potatoes 98 cents for 10 pounds
Miniimum wage was $1.40. So why is it not $14 today? And why do pennies and nickles still exist? ...
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Stupid slashdot, those were spacers to make the post more readable. Now gone, idiots. Happy?
Not only that, but there are still dealers who will only take cash. The bar I go to takes only cash and checks, although there is an ATM, which dispenses... cash. A lot of bars and other places are like that because it costs the vendor a buck or two per transaction if a credit card is used. Do you really think the banking industry will let Apple kill their cash generating machines? Banks make tons of money from ATMs.
The statement is literally brainless; no thought whatever was put to it, unless you consider wishing for unicorns "thinking".
Well, when I was 16-24yrs, I was into and enjoyed high fidelity stereo....my friends all did as well.
Er, not unless your parents and friends' parents were very well off, or all of them were in the military and bought their equipment duty-free in Asia you didn't. Before digital, in America a high fidelity stereo (let alone quadraphonic system) would cost your a couple grand.
I used to have an audiophile-quality system I bought stationed in Thailand, but it was stolen in a burglary. I have a pair of JBLs now, three way with twelve inch woofers. I miss my old stereo.
But I rip from YouTube occasionally, and rip from KSHE every Sunday night when they play six full albums. With Windows all it takes is Audacity and a setting in mmsys.cpl to capture a signal sent to your sound card, you don't need those goofs' web site.
I make CDs from KSHE's albums for the car, and they sound as good as factory CDs -- in the car. Their difference in quality in the house with the JBLs is marginal. It's a LOT better sound than a cassette recorded at home.
If you're in St. Louis (I'm not) you can plug your digital FM radio's "out" jacks into your computer's input jacks and you actually will have CD quality music.
The labels are fighting a losing cause.
Only if you're interested in not sounding like a semi-literate.
"...applications who is sole aim..." HUH? Is English a second language for you? I think the word you want is whose.
I hear they stopped teaching grammar in grammar school, is this true? I've certainly seen more grocer's apostrophes and misused homophones (like whose who's, there's theirs, etc) in the last ten years than in the previous half century.
And often the bar codes are on the bottom of the container (e.g., twelve packs of beer).
Dumb idea. And when Microsoft stops security updates when your fridge is only nine years old?
WTF are these idiots thinking?
Where's my fridge? How about not running the compressor when it's well below freezing outside? How about venting the heat outside instead of into the kitchen when it's sweltering outside?
Your milk and egg cartons are transparent? You keep paper towels and canned goods and spices in the fridge?
Indeed. Most IoT stuff, like his fridge, are really stupid. Like the IoT kitchen stove you can turn on with your phone... WTF??? You DON'T want the stove on when you're not home!
Adjust the A/C with a phone? What, you're too damned lazy to walk across the room? Stupid! If I can turn off the heat with my phone, so can the FSB.
I may have to buy a TV even though the one I have works perfectly fine, because it may not be long before you can no longer buy a dumb TV.
It's bad enough that my computers and phone are hackable, I don't want anything else I own on the internet at all.
People are stupid, though, "Ooh! Shiny!"
Try shutting a few things off. On my phone, when I use my bluetooth speaker, half the time it will reboot itself because Google decides that's exactly when it should update an app I never use and wish I could remove. I found that shutting off wi-fi makes it crash less.
And just what part of your ass did you pull that "statistic" from?
Oh, BTW, you may be running Linux or BSD yourself and not even know it -- Android is Linux and Apple is BSD. In fact, about the only computers that aren't running BSD or Linux are Windows desktops and laptops.