A few months back I felt that I needed to try to tame at least one Windows 10 machine. Forked out $800 for machine and big monitor.
Hacked it for a while. Had no reason to trust it. Got depressed and turned it off. Time went by. Then decided to go the XP/7 route. Found a guy refurbing old computers.
Ended up taking back the $800 boat anchor, which completely paid for FOUR refurbed-to-my-spec systems, and one new LCD. Could not be happier.
By the way, tried to downgrade the Windows 10 machine and ran into a little snag...while installing an older version of Windows, (after the necessary BIOS changes) it decided to disable the USB ports...in mid-install. Not sure if this is a feature, or a benefit.
I know first hand someone who just got performance-review pressured to leave their job because they weren't playing ping pong enough. This marketing/web company has a ping pong table in the middle of the office and apparently only non-team players avoid using it during working hours.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to begin picking up the pieces of my exploded cranium.
Cliff notes: this is for the workers who deal with PFOA, not for chinese food (and apparently chinese food container) eaters. In short, sensationalist headline is sensationalist, and is distracting from watching the Patriots lose.
Short of a mod/meta-mod system, there is no way to stop people from posting and voting the way they want, and often in groups.
When you switch it to no down votes, all you do is lose comment value. Whereas if you left the bias in there, the pattern could at least be seen and avoided by many.
For example, I've seen (on IMDb) where someone clearly when down the page of reviews and -1'd all the 9 or 10 star reviews. So you can factor that in and not get fooled by it. Also, software can limit how many votes you have, or how many votes are allowed per hour, etc.
By the way, alt-left communities do the same thing. The notion that we only want to block one side of things is fascism at its finest.
Right. Last year Amazon turned off the "No" votes in the reviews on Amazon.com. Those "No" votes were useful. Now you only see "x people liked this comment", or nothing. But how much was the nothing? -1? -100?
It is ironic that Facebook *started* this way, then changed...
No, it's like having a car with 5 wheels bearing the load in such a way that if 1 fails, the load is still carried by the other 4. And then you change the 5th tire.
One client I have is a quadraplegic. Voice recognition on his laptop, and Alexa available to him when he is away from the laptop or merely wants a daily news snapshot, etc.
Alexa is not perfect, of course. Last week I asked "her" how tall Jeremy Clarkson is and it came back with 6 feet, when he is in fact 6 feet 5 inches (on wiki anyway).
Still, it is invaluable for a person in this situation.
Privacy stuff? The average/. techie knows about it _and_ cares about. The rest of the computer using population? Awareness but no care, or no care.
So the comparison with worse-than-useless 3D TV is not valid.
Some NFL games are only on CBS, or NBC, or FOX, or even the NFL channel. Some golf is only on CBS, NBC or the golf channel. Some basketball is only on TNT, etc. How do you figure you only need ESPN to watch live sports?
I neither wear a watch nor carry any time-keeping device. The world is saturated with time-keeping devices these days. Clock in my vehicle, gui shows time, microwave oven clock when not near the computer. Seriously don't need one. Sorry to spoil someone's desire to sell more product.
And when someone wakes up to find Windows 10 installed over their Windows 7/8/8.1 setup, doesn't that mean that their previous Firefox/Chrome default has now been changed...against their will? So most of this market share "gain" is really an attack, disruption or theft.
I bought three Lenovos four years ago. Two Z570 and a G580, all with 4GB RAM and spinning rust. All still performing perfectly. Reinstall software is a push-button process (used once so far). Couldn't be happier.
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A few months back I felt that I needed to try to tame at least one Windows 10 machine. Forked out $800 for machine and big monitor.
Hacked it for a while. Had no reason to trust it. Got depressed and turned it off. Time went by. Then decided to go the XP/7 route. Found a guy refurbing old computers.
Ended up taking back the $800 boat anchor, which completely paid for FOUR refurbed-to-my-spec systems, and one new LCD. Could not be happier.
By the way, tried to downgrade the Windows 10 machine and ran into a little snag...while installing an older version of Windows, (after the necessary BIOS changes) it decided to disable the USB ports...in mid-install. Not sure if this is a feature, or a benefit.
Right. Amazon is the king of A/B testing.
I know first hand someone who just got performance-review pressured to leave their job because they weren't playing ping pong enough. This marketing/web company has a ping pong table in the middle of the office and apparently only non-team players avoid using it during working hours.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to begin picking up the pieces of my exploded cranium.
Cliff notes: this is for the workers who deal with PFOA, not for chinese food (and apparently chinese food container) eaters. In short, sensationalist headline is sensationalist, and is distracting from watching the Patriots lose.
It _is_ possible to down-vote a review.
It is _not_ possible to show how net negative a review was rated.
Example 1: it used to show "10 out of 197 people liked this review". Now it shows "10 liked it"
Example 2: it used to show "0 out of 197 people liked this review". Now it shows "...crickets..."
Both are now misleading but weren't before.
Short of a mod/meta-mod system, there is no way to stop people from posting and voting the way they want, and often in groups.
When you switch it to no down votes, all you do is lose comment value. Whereas if you left the bias in there, the pattern could at least be seen and avoided by many.
For example, I've seen (on IMDb) where someone clearly when down the page of reviews and -1'd all the 9 or 10 star reviews. So you can factor that in and not get fooled by it. Also, software can limit how many votes you have, or how many votes are allowed per hour, etc.
By the way, alt-left communities do the same thing. The notion that we only want to block one side of things is fascism at its finest.
19 new threads started in the last 12 hours, 27 years after the series came to an end.
Right. Last year Amazon turned off the "No" votes in the reviews on Amazon.com. Those "No" votes were useful. Now you only see "x people liked this comment", or nothing. But how much was the nothing? -1? -100?
It is ironic that Facebook *started* this way, then changed...
Back when Microsoft Office 2000 was selling for four or five hundred dollars, I got an email offer from them...for $100.
MS, if you're listening, my email is above. Send me such an offer on WXELTSB and you've got yourself a happier techie.
Yes, I can be bought, or at least muzzled.
Why don't slashdotters form an enterprise?
I'd pay a hundred bucks for a copy of Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB.
Must be Stuff That Matters.
No, it's like having a car with 5 wheels bearing the load in such a way that if 1 fails, the load is still carried by the other 4. And then you change the 5th tire.
There are use cases.
One client I have is a quadraplegic. Voice recognition on his laptop, and Alexa available to him when he is away from the laptop or merely wants a daily news snapshot, etc.
Alexa is not perfect, of course. Last week I asked "her" how tall Jeremy Clarkson is and it came back with 6 feet, when he is in fact 6 feet 5 inches (on wiki anyway).
Still, it is invaluable for a person in this situation.
Privacy stuff? The average /. techie knows about it _and_ cares about. The rest of the computer using population? Awareness but no care, or no care.
So the comparison with worse-than-useless 3D TV is not valid.
LG to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017
Some NFL games are only on CBS, or NBC, or FOX, or even the NFL channel. Some golf is only on CBS, NBC or the golf channel. Some basketball is only on TNT, etc. How do you figure you only need ESPN to watch live sports?
Where does one draw the line? For example:
Ever seen it split into two words? Hyphenated, btw...I certainly haven't. Which one do you think is "right" for English-speakers to use?
The point is that "resume" was adopted from another language and is now a word in the English language. Unaccented on either "e".
Next we will be dropping the "h" in "huge"...
I carry a slide phone, with the battery removed. It replaces the two quarters I used to need to carry.
I neither wear a watch nor carry any time-keeping device. The world is saturated with time-keeping devices these days. Clock in my vehicle, gui shows time, microwave oven clock when not near the computer. Seriously don't need one. Sorry to spoil someone's desire to sell more product.
Or cameras...then post it on Facebooge
Is it the number of users or the power they have? The people with half the money in the world have a smaller percentage "market share".
CO2
44 g/mole
Baking Soda
NaHCO3
84 g/mole
NaOH
40 g/mole
The reaction is CO2 + NaOH => NaHCO3
So 44 g CO2 + 40 g NaOH => 84 g NaHCO3
So to capture 66,000 tons of CO2, you need 10/11*66,000 tons of NaOH (i.e. 60,000 tons) and you get 126,000 tons of soap.
Lets say a family of four uses 1/4 pound of soap per month. This would make enough soap for 100,000,000
people (each month/indefinitely).
Bulk cost of NaOH is $125/ton, so the 60,000 tons of NaOH needed would cost $7,500,000.
Promise you'll block my Windows 10 PC from calling home and I might be interested.
And when someone wakes up to find Windows 10 installed over their Windows 7/8/8.1 setup, doesn't that mean that their previous Firefox/Chrome default has now been changed...against their will? So most of this market share "gain" is really an attack, disruption or theft.
I bought three Lenovos four years ago. Two Z570 and a G580, all with 4GB RAM and spinning rust. All still performing perfectly. Reinstall software is a push-button process (used once so far). Couldn't be happier.
What on Earth would you be doing on Facebook for six hours a day?