I wanted to perma-block Windows 10 on the machines I look after. Ran the batch file that turns everything off. Job done.
Two days later I notice the GWX icon on an HP machine. The "helpful" HP utilities (that I never consciously invoke myself) must have summoned the evil that is WX.
So I re-ran the perma-blocker AND did my best to kill all vestiges of HP helpers on the machine. So far so good.
I'm curious what Microsoft would do if you deliberately reduced disk space to less than it needed for the upgrade.
(1) Would it still download it?
(2) Start the upgrade process?
(3) What about if you made it so there was not enough space to download the Windows 10 update -- would it try anyway?
(4)...and fill up the drive?
Any gross incompetence would make future class action lawsuits easier to win.
Now I'm picturing a chron job that automatically fills up most of the drive just before Windows Update normally runs, as a counter-measure. With a second chron job that runs an hour after Windows Update to delete the temp files. Boy will this all be a world of fun!
Also, does their math add up? "40,000 to the third power worth of word combinations...can be stored in 5 megabytes?" Sounds like they could make a lot more money in the data compression business...
I think the problem is you're not watching enough TV. You could branch out to binge-watching football (all day Saturday and Sunday) and of course March Madness takes up all of March (this assumes you are recording on multiple set top boxes). Also, you might try upgrading the hard drive on your Tivo, so that you can fit in every episode of How It's Made. It is just a matter of showing real commitment. Once you've got things to the next level, report back for more tips.
Pretty good rant, but one clarif -- you can make the "main details" page much bigger, by default, so that you don't have to click anything to find out who all was in and made the movie. Just a preference setting away, and it sticks like cookie dough.
The Sharp had one thing none of the others (at that time -- early 80's) did. Playback.
You entered in up to 50 "button pushes" of whatever, and hit =. To check you entered it all, you hit PB (playback) and you could then scroll through every bit of it.
It also had 6 memory locations you could draw from. The others in its price range had 2.
No other calculator came close (at that time), even at 3 times the money. [I guess they are up to 142 steps now.]
Fond, fond memories of that product. From sharp minds indeed.
I didn't go out of my way to convince my felow 'geers about its virtues...
There is nothing more predictable than a "revolt".
Boycott -- selective use of one product over another -- is much more attention getting.
Sony ships a rootkit, and earns my perma boycott.
I have a few others I could name, but I'd prefer to not have negative karma.
When I see "light rail" / rapid transit coming in, I know I will be steering well clear of that area. There won't be a single thing designed correctly -- overly wide lanes, but not enough of them; traffic lights that are sinked to the phases of the moon, or perhaps estrus; speed limit designed to make power walkers and old people look fast.
And, as you say, for what? I would summarize this type of project as "Take 10 times too many resources, and make then 10 times less useful and effective, so that 1% of the population get served, somewhat."
But I'm not some 60's dinosaur. I also like to exercise by planting trees. For the city I live in. Season starting again soon, btw. And I'll be sharing my vehicle once again. My vehicle is a "mid size" truck -- GMC Sierra 1500 Extended Cab. Big guzzler, right? Except I don't use it much more than I use my mountain bike. And skateboard. And besides, the gas mileage is 2/3 of a Kia Soul.
I would never have thought I would own a truck. I've owned Cadillacs and MB's...but this truck is far and away my favorite vehicle.
It just shows how much we are brainwashed and lied to, about everything.
Given the sorry state of physics, there is nothing wrong with hearing from alternatives, "armchair" or otherwise.
However, you mix relativity...with string theory -- and you can't do that.
But the biggest wtf is that the missing stuff is all *delay*? So, are we do for a gigantic shipment of stuff at some future date? This nonsense suggests you don't know how to vet your own ideas.
So, Mr. Ph.D., you fail in the details, not in whether you are an armchair or "pro" commenter.
Wouldn't it be interesting if the vans were non-existent? The equivalent of a sticker from a security company plastered on your living room window. "Speed monitored by aircraft signs".
your life expectancy goes up with age because that evidence of you being healthy
No, it isn't evidence of anything. You have simply moved past some of life's threats.
You can see this illustrated in Texas Hold 'em, when they show the percentage chance of winning. One person is ahead in a race condition, and say the other person needs a Jack for a set. Their percent chance of getting that Jack decreases with each card turned -- but this doesn't reflect the odds of a Jack turning up as the next card. Just that they are running out of chances.
In the morbidity race, as we get older we run out of chances for a morbid card to turn over, and some cards are no longer in play (e.g. SIDS) as we get older.
Yup. After a while one feels like a janitor -- only noticed when part of the floor goes unwaxed. Which is why companies like Intel thrive -- CEO is/was a major techie (Chem Eng). Same for Microsoft, of course. Companies ignore their technical side at their peril.
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Yeah, but there is a new threat/consideration.
I wanted to perma-block Windows 10 on the machines I look after. Ran the batch file that turns everything off. Job done.
Two days later I notice the GWX icon on an HP machine. The "helpful" HP utilities (that I never consciously invoke myself) must have summoned the evil that is WX.
So I re-ran the perma-blocker AND did my best to kill all vestiges of HP helpers on the machine. So far so good.
I'm curious what Microsoft would do if you deliberately reduced disk space to less than it needed for the upgrade. ...and fill up the drive?
(1) Would it still download it?
(2) Start the upgrade process?
(3) What about if you made it so there was not enough space to download the Windows 10 update -- would it try anyway?
(4)
Any gross incompetence would make future class action lawsuits easier to win.
Now I'm picturing a chron job that automatically fills up most of the drive just before Windows Update normally runs, as a counter-measure. With a second chron job that runs an hour after Windows Update to delete the temp files. Boy will this all be a world of fun!
Also, does their math add up? "40,000 to the third power worth of word combinations...can be stored in 5 megabytes?" Sounds like they could make a lot more money in the data compression business...
Thanks in part to Jared, who only got 15 years today. Strange world...
I think the problem is you're not watching enough TV. You could branch out to binge-watching football (all day Saturday and Sunday) and of course March Madness takes up all of March (this assumes you are recording on multiple set top boxes). Also, you might try upgrading the hard drive on your Tivo, so that you can fit in every episode of How It's Made. It is just a matter of showing real commitment. Once you've got things to the next level, report back for more tips.
That site doesn't want any customers. Do you have a proper link?
Pretty good rant, but one clarif -- you can make the "main details" page much bigger, by default, so that you don't have to click anything to find out who all was in and made the movie. Just a preference setting away, and it sticks like cookie dough.
As to ads, I really had no idea IMDB had ads...
You are dreaming if you think a tram system is a solution. At a minimum, it has to co-exist with a variety of other systems.
Tram, and bus, systems are chronic money losers, among other drawbacks.
And I'm a child of the 50s, not 60s.
The Sharp had one thing none of the others (at that time -- early 80's) did. Playback.
You entered in up to 50 "button pushes" of whatever, and hit =. To check you entered it all, you hit PB (playback) and you could then scroll through every bit of it. It also had 6 memory locations you could draw from. The others in its price range had 2.
No other calculator came close (at that time), even at 3 times the money. [I guess they are up to 142 steps now.]
Fond, fond memories of that product. From sharp minds indeed. I didn't go out of my way to convince my felow 'geers about its virtues...
There is nothing more predictable than a "revolt". Boycott -- selective use of one product over another -- is much more attention getting. Sony ships a rootkit, and earns my perma boycott. I have a few others I could name, but I'd prefer to not have negative karma.
Eudora is so good, so rock-solid stable, they stopped development and have given it away for the past 9 years.
Couldn't agree more.
When I see "light rail" / rapid transit coming in, I know I will be steering well clear of that area. There won't be a single thing designed correctly -- overly wide lanes, but not enough of them; traffic lights that are sinked to the phases of the moon, or perhaps estrus; speed limit designed to make power walkers and old people look fast.
And, as you say, for what? I would summarize this type of project as "Take 10 times too many resources, and make then 10 times less useful and effective, so that 1% of the population get served, somewhat."
But I'm not some 60's dinosaur. I also like to exercise by planting trees. For the city I live in. Season starting again soon, btw. And I'll be sharing my vehicle once again. My vehicle is a "mid size" truck -- GMC Sierra 1500 Extended Cab. Big guzzler, right? Except I don't use it much more than I use my mountain bike. And skateboard. And besides, the gas mileage is 2/3 of a Kia Soul.
I would never have thought I would own a truck. I've owned Cadillacs and MB's...but this truck is far and away my favorite vehicle.
It just shows how much we are brainwashed and lied to, about everything.
Blackity Black Black?
"String theory implies new physics in - and only in - the quantum regime."
Relativity does not work at the quantum/Planck scale.
Since you are clearly quite clueless about all this, and I have better things to do, I officially exit this "discussion".
Check out the first answer
Given the sorry state of physics, there is nothing wrong with hearing from alternatives, "armchair" or otherwise.
However, you mix relativity...with string theory -- and you can't do that.
But the biggest wtf is that the missing stuff is all *delay*? So, are we do for a gigantic shipment of stuff at some future date? This nonsense suggests you don't know how to vet your own ideas.
So, Mr. Ph.D., you fail in the details, not in whether you are an armchair or "pro" commenter.
Wouldn't it be interesting if the vans were non-existent? The equivalent of a sticker from a security company plastered on your living room window. "Speed monitored by aircraft signs".
(1) mentally unstable (especially in his later years)
- not relevant. Getting old sucks, in one way or another.
(2) a terrible businessman
Edison = Jobs. Tesla = Woz.
Since this is a thread about inventors, Edison/Jobs is irrelevant.
Edison belongs in a best businessman thread, next to Jeff Bezos and Thomas Watson.
(3) Tesla was a brilliant engineer...not-so-great at implementation.
Tesla was a great inventor. BTW, I don't think you know what an engineer is.
Edison ran a massive invention lab.
Tesla was a lone genius.
Edison was like Rutherford, tyrannically running a lab.
Tesla was like Einstein, reinventing the world of mere humans.
No, it isn't evidence of anything. You have simply moved past some of life's threats.
You can see this illustrated in Texas Hold 'em, when they show the percentage chance of winning. One person is ahead in a race condition, and say the other person needs a Jack for a set. Their percent chance of getting that Jack decreases with each card turned -- but this doesn't reflect the odds of a Jack turning up as the next card. Just that they are running out of chances.
In the morbidity race, as we get older we run out of chances for a morbid card to turn over, and some cards are no longer in play (e.g. SIDS) as we get older.
Tilde, of course.
"We collect dot dot dot one neutrino dot dot dot every tilde ten minutes"
For intonation, check here.
Well, one of the problems mentioned in the article is that this SSD will not have cache RAM. So it is projected to be slow. Slow equals "not as good".
There are many ways to make something poorly.
The article said a 5TB SSD from the same company was "north of $5,000". So, somewhere in that range.
What happens if you plug this into a powered USB hub? Does it fry the hub?
At least hub makers could (re)design their products to handle this.
Yup. After a while one feels like a janitor -- only noticed when part of the floor goes unwaxed. Which is why companies like Intel thrive -- CEO is/was a major techie (Chem Eng). Same for Microsoft, of course. Companies ignore their technical side at their peril.