Almost all of the top 100 or so are absolutely not surprising at all, but what's with Proyecto 40 and AMGTV? I can't find anything newsworthy or interesting about them. I don't understand why they made the top 5000 at all, much less into the top 10.
You work to live. The people you don't understand are those who live to work. There's no guarantee at all that those who live to work will end up rich, and many if not most do not, but the study has found that those that do become rich by working skew heavily towards those who live to work. Those who live to work don't stop working; why would you stop doing something you like to do? If they are forced to retire, they will find something, anything, to keep themselves busy, usually driving their spouses/family/neighbors mad in the process.
I'm with XKCD on this - it's all about how many things you can remember easily, and catering to that. Sure, I can just bang on my keyboard like a frustrated pianist and make an ironclad password like apSo8soDis+y2apjbea;is5ya4sHayb,Fia7py but can I memorize that? Heck, no. I construct a sentence of long words that almost makes sense, and include a bit of punctuation (if allowed), numbers and capitalization. If you construct the sentence well, you can even make several words count as one thing to remember. Here's an example of a password that has four things to remember (a four word sentence, a number, a punctuation and a capitalization) that took me a minute or two to generate: powerful3education=automaticallyMeasured
What do you need a lock screen for? All it's there for is to make you hit a key to make it go away. Utterly useless. So get rid of it! Regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows, create a Personalization key if there isn't one, make a DWORD (32-bit) Value of NoLockScreen and set it to 1. Reboot and it's gone.
I have family in Fairbanks that run an industrial business that would inevitably be significantly involved in and enormously impacted by such a project, and I can tell you that there is no talk of or preparation of even the slightest increase in the infrastructure that would be required before this project even began.
The first phase of an initial inquiry into increasing railroad infrastructure from Alaska to the lower 48, about 10 years ago, rung up an estimate of about a dozen billion dollars; everyone involved did the "let me laugh even harder" dance, and a second phase of the inquiry never happened.
That short little hop between Nome and Fairbanks is 500 miles of wilderness. There are no roads in the entire western half of Alaska and nobody is talking about building any.
The Olympic Committee, professional sports of all kinds, scholastic sports, athletics, and so on. Will these be allowed? Will they be disallowed? Is there already rules in the books that cover something like this, or will there have to be a flood of new rules in every sports organization to cover unpowered exoskeletons of all kinds?
This is sounding a lot like a situation my family is now dealing with, and the results weren't pretty.
My sister-in-law attempted to homeschool her daughter. It's a bit of a mystery why, because it definitely wasn't the usual religious or political reasons. The sister-in-law did not do well in high school, barely made it to graduation. I can only guess that she didn't want her daughter to have the same terrible experience with school that she had.
The end result was that starting at age 11, she kept her daughter at home, did not connect up with local school districts while moving to two different states, and apparently went from minimal schooling at the beginning to no schooling at all. Which should not have been a big surprise since she did so poorly in school herself. Her daughter ended up isolated from other kids her age, mostly just sitting in a room bored out of her mind. The daughter is now 17, the rest of the family has intervened and she's finally getting enrolled into a good small alternative school, where she'll be assessed to figure out where she needs to catch up, but it's going to take awhile because we know she needs some refresher courses on multiplication tables, for instance.
So you have got to ask yourself and your wife hard questions about why she feels qualified to teach when she couldn't even complete high school. Maybe adult life and the GED stuff got her up to normal functioning or maybe even better than usual - but probably not. What happens in the very real possibility that she finds she can't hack it as a teacher? Because the ability to teach is not in all of us, and if it was difficult to learn, it's going to be even more difficult to teach.
Personally, I've found that having a two word last name is enough to confuse many systems.
You should see the violence and mayhem that an individual with the name A O (first name A, last name O) wreaks upon an HMO patient data file system for which some long-departed pre-millenial programmer decided there should be a three-character minimum for the combined name field.
This made me think immediately of the Borderlands games, which uses a black outline shader. Lots of PC gamers turn off the black lines (which are separate from the cell shading, by the way) but I left them on because I liked them, for reasons I couldn't ever explain very well.
We're going to pay how much for three times a year? This should be three times a month, ramping up to three times a week. What good is three launches a year?
So you're looking for a mission that can be accomplished with three launches a year. How about you launch a drawing board up into space, design yourself a pair of brass balls, and make something that will make them clack more than once a month? We'll have no trouble coming up with missions for you then!
This particular TBM cost $80 million: http://www.popularmechanics.co...
They're spending $125 million to fix it. It seems plausible that dismantling it from behind and assembling a new one in place would have cost more than $45 million (plus $80 million for the new TBM).
1. To prevent junkware prompts during the initial install, download the installer from oracle instead of java.com, because the oracle installer does not have the junkware prompt: http://www.oracle.com/technetw...
(searching for "java oracle download" will get you there)
2. To prevent junkware prompts during the updates, disable Java Sponsors.
A java.com FAQ claims that in 7u65 or later, you can find a "Suppress sponsor offers when updating Java" option in the Java Control Panel's Advanced tab, but I have never seen it there, possibly because I have issued the regkey fix. To do that, save the following text to a file titled "disable-java-sponsers.reg" and double-click the file:
The answer of "Don't install Java at all, problem solved" is great and I wholeheartedly recommend it for those who don't need to run it, but there are many who have no choice and must run it for work, banking, Minecraft, etc. Using the regkey fix is great to prevent clueless family (grandparents!) and friends who need to run Java from accidentally installing the junkware.
If you think that Apple is trailblazing the neuterization of an in-house picture editor into a slide-show presenter, look at how MS transitioned what was Microsoft Digital Image in 2006 to Windows Photo Gallery 2012.
I would guess that both Microsoft and Apple lost the ability to offer competent tech support for the complicated features of photo editors, and decided to let Adobe handle that.
The Phase I report there refers to a "Nominal US$11 billion investment". This is only for connecting Anchorage to the US by rail. There has been no followup on this since 2007 that I am aware of. There are 521 miles of utterly undeveloped and unpopulated terrain between Nome and Fairbanks that includes 65 miles of mountains, 185 miles of wetlands, and the Yukon river. Just building a road between Fairbanks and Nome was estimated to cost $27 billion in 2010.
My family's small business in Fairbanks would inevitably be very much involved in any project to build railroads anywhere in Western Alaska, and there has been absolutely no indication that either the Alaskan government or the US government has ever had the slightest interest in building so much as a dirt road in that direction, much less a multi-continental railroad.
A long time ago (30 years ago? 40? I'm not sure) Sanyo made a toaster that does not break by design: the Sanyo Toasty Oven. My parents have one and I remember using it as a child. They still have it, and it still works, 30 or 40 years later. I plan to ask them to leave it to me in their will. There's a Sanyo Toasty Oven SK-7S on amazon which looks a bit different from the original that my parents have, but it's out of stock, and some Sanyo Toasty Plus ovens on some Asian shopping sites, but all of them are out of stock too.
Isn't the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer still the default on Windows 8? Isn't Firefox (the one you normally get anyway) and Chrome still also 32 bit?
It seems to me that what America lacks now is impulse control. By that I mean the obesity epidemic, the drugs epidemic, and most particularly the debt epidemic (consumers and government both). What happens when you've got superiority, insecurity but no impulse control? The fall of the Roman Empire?
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We also need to incentivize people moving to where the work is.
What's your plan for housing? It's expensive where the work is.
More seriously, the only way to gauge news today is to read a wide variety of sources and ignore the slanted ones.
I guess you'll be ignoring /. then. That / is definitely slanted.
What I want to know is why Malwarebytes does NOT remove Windows 10, the worst malware ever to infest any computer!!!!
How did you manage to get your Mac infested with Windows 10?
Almost all of the top 100 or so are absolutely not surprising at all, but what's with Proyecto 40 and AMGTV? I can't find anything newsworthy or interesting about them. I don't understand why they made the top 5000 at all, much less into the top 10.
You work to live. The people you don't understand are those who live to work. There's no guarantee at all that those who live to work will end up rich, and many if not most do not, but the study has found that those that do become rich by working skew heavily towards those who live to work. Those who live to work don't stop working; why would you stop doing something you like to do? If they are forced to retire, they will find something, anything, to keep themselves busy, usually driving their spouses/family/neighbors mad in the process.
If you're not employing megnetoplasmadynamic engines with potassium seeded helium propellant, I'm not interested.
I'm with XKCD on this - it's all about how many things you can remember easily, and catering to that. Sure, I can just bang on my keyboard like a frustrated pianist and make an ironclad password like apSo8soDis+y2apjbea;is5ya4sHayb,Fia7py but can I memorize that? Heck, no. I construct a sentence of long words that almost makes sense, and include a bit of punctuation (if allowed), numbers and capitalization. If you construct the sentence well, you can even make several words count as one thing to remember. Here's an example of a password that has four things to remember (a four word sentence, a number, a punctuation and a capitalization) that took me a minute or two to generate: powerful3education=automaticallyMeasured
"Control to Static Headspace-Multicapillary Column-Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry, please respond..."
"Control to Static Headspace-Multicapillary Column-Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry, please respond..."
"Control to Static Spacehead-Multitipperary Column-Godammit I quit!"
What do you need a lock screen for? All it's there for is to make you hit a key to make it go away. Utterly useless. So get rid of it! Regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows, create a Personalization key if there isn't one, make a DWORD (32-bit) Value of NoLockScreen and set it to 1. Reboot and it's gone.
Maybe we should stop putting people into categories and treating them differently (+ or -) based on the amount of pigment in their skin?
Maybe we should judge people not based on the color of their skin but on the content of their character?
Facebook did that, and in 2013, out of a total of 1,231 people hired, 7 were African-American.
ppi = penises per ... dammit I can't think of a good 'i'
Only because you haven't watched enough porn. Individual, innocent, insertion, interview, Italian...
I have family in Fairbanks that run an industrial business that would inevitably be significantly involved in and enormously impacted by such a project, and I can tell you that there is no talk of or preparation of even the slightest increase in the infrastructure that would be required before this project even began.
The first phase of an initial inquiry into increasing railroad infrastructure from Alaska to the lower 48, about 10 years ago, rung up an estimate of about a dozen billion dollars; everyone involved did the "let me laugh even harder" dance, and a second phase of the inquiry never happened.
That short little hop between Nome and Fairbanks is 500 miles of wilderness. There are no roads in the entire western half of Alaska and nobody is talking about building any.
The Olympic Committee, professional sports of all kinds, scholastic sports, athletics, and so on. Will these be allowed? Will they be disallowed? Is there already rules in the books that cover something like this, or will there have to be a flood of new rules in every sports organization to cover unpowered exoskeletons of all kinds?
This is sounding a lot like a situation my family is now dealing with, and the results weren't pretty.
My sister-in-law attempted to homeschool her daughter. It's a bit of a mystery why, because it definitely wasn't the usual religious or political reasons. The sister-in-law did not do well in high school, barely made it to graduation. I can only guess that she didn't want her daughter to have the same terrible experience with school that she had.
The end result was that starting at age 11, she kept her daughter at home, did not connect up with local school districts while moving to two different states, and apparently went from minimal schooling at the beginning to no schooling at all. Which should not have been a big surprise since she did so poorly in school herself. Her daughter ended up isolated from other kids her age, mostly just sitting in a room bored out of her mind. The daughter is now 17, the rest of the family has intervened and she's finally getting enrolled into a good small alternative school, where she'll be assessed to figure out where she needs to catch up, but it's going to take awhile because we know she needs some refresher courses on multiplication tables, for instance.
So you have got to ask yourself and your wife hard questions about why she feels qualified to teach when she couldn't even complete high school. Maybe adult life and the GED stuff got her up to normal functioning or maybe even better than usual - but probably not. What happens in the very real possibility that she finds she can't hack it as a teacher? Because the ability to teach is not in all of us, and if it was difficult to learn, it's going to be even more difficult to teach.
Personally, I've found that having a two word last name is enough to confuse many systems.
You should see the violence and mayhem that an individual with the name A O (first name A, last name O) wreaks upon an HMO patient data file system for which some long-departed pre-millenial programmer decided there should be a three-character minimum for the combined name field.
This made me think immediately of the Borderlands games, which uses a black outline shader. Lots of PC gamers turn off the black lines (which are separate from the cell shading, by the way) but I left them on because I liked them, for reasons I couldn't ever explain very well.
We're going to pay how much for three times a year? This should be three times a month, ramping up to three times a week. What good is three launches a year?
So you're looking for a mission that can be accomplished with three launches a year. How about you launch a drawing board up into space, design yourself a pair of brass balls, and make something that will make them clack more than once a month? We'll have no trouble coming up with missions for you then!
This particular TBM cost $80 million:
http://www.popularmechanics.co...
They're spending $125 million to fix it. It seems plausible that dismantling it from behind and assembling a new one in place would have cost more than $45 million (plus $80 million for the new TBM).
1. To prevent junkware prompts during the initial install, download the installer from oracle instead of java.com, because the oracle installer does not have the junkware prompt:
http://www.oracle.com/technetw...
(searching for "java oracle download" will get you there)
2. To prevent junkware prompts during the updates, disable Java Sponsors.
A java.com FAQ claims that in 7u65 or later, you can find a "Suppress sponsor offers when updating Java" option in the Java Control Panel's Advanced tab, but I have never seen it there, possibly because I have issued the regkey fix. To do that, save the following text to a file titled "disable-java-sponsers.reg" and double-click the file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"
The answer of "Don't install Java at all, problem solved" is great and I wholeheartedly recommend it for those who don't need to run it, but there are many who have no choice and must run it for work, banking, Minecraft, etc. Using the regkey fix is great to prevent clueless family (grandparents!) and friends who need to run Java from accidentally installing the junkware.
If you think that Apple is trailblazing the neuterization of an in-house picture editor into a slide-show presenter, look at how MS transitioned what was Microsoft Digital Image in 2006 to Windows Photo Gallery 2012.
I would guess that both Microsoft and Apple lost the ability to offer competent tech support for the complicated features of photo editors, and decided to let Adobe handle that.
Alaska, Canada and the US did a feasibility study in 2007 for connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage to the US by rail:
http://alaskacanadarail.com/in...
The Phase I report there refers to a "Nominal US$11 billion investment". This is only for connecting Anchorage to the US by rail. There has been no followup on this since 2007 that I am aware of. There are 521 miles of utterly undeveloped and unpopulated terrain between Nome and Fairbanks that includes 65 miles of mountains, 185 miles of wetlands, and the Yukon river. Just building a road between Fairbanks and Nome was estimated to cost $27 billion in 2010.
My family's small business in Fairbanks would inevitably be very much involved in any project to build railroads anywhere in Western Alaska, and there has been absolutely no indication that either the Alaskan government or the US government has ever had the slightest interest in building so much as a dirt road in that direction, much less a multi-continental railroad.
A long time ago (30 years ago? 40? I'm not sure) Sanyo made a toaster that does not break by design: the Sanyo Toasty Oven. My parents have one and I remember using it as a child. They still have it, and it still works, 30 or 40 years later. I plan to ask them to leave it to me in their will. There's a Sanyo Toasty Oven SK-7S on amazon which looks a bit different from the original that my parents have, but it's out of stock, and some Sanyo Toasty Plus ovens on some Asian shopping sites, but all of them are out of stock too.
But java.com states that it's about whether you're using a 32 or 64 bit browser, not OS:
http://www.java.com/en/downloa...
Isn't the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer still the default on Windows 8? Isn't Firefox (the one you normally get anyway) and Chrome still also 32 bit?
You only get the crapware if you get it from java.com, so don't get it there. If you get it from oracle, you'll get it without crapware:
http://www.oracle.com/technetw...
It seems to me that what America lacks now is impulse control. By that I mean the obesity epidemic, the drugs epidemic, and most particularly the debt epidemic (consumers and government both). What happens when you've got superiority, insecurity but no impulse control? The fall of the Roman Empire?