Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. Most the images looked virtually identical, but the main image where the PC showed more detail I just see jpeg artifacts as you said. I looked up at the URL and saw.JPG and thought.... wow you went through all this trouble to show which was better and you ruined your visuals by using JPG when PNG was right there probably one drop down box away when you were saving the images.. At this rate I am not sure if they save the screen shots in JPG then put them together in say Adobe Photoshop then saved them in JPG yet again..
One phrase I have not heard this election cycle is "Tea Party Candidate", nor have I seen any coverage of any Tea Party anything. They need to bring all that back, that much more fun to watch.
Speaking for workstations/desktops: Every business I know or dealt with has no plans to go to Windows 8.x, ever. They all buy desktops that might come with Windows 8 but they just get imaged to Windows 7. Most of them lagged getting away from XP and they just now got to 7. My best guess is Windows 10 will be the successor after it comes out and proves to be stable and usable as a desktop OS.
I heard one tech recently say something about how we should upgrade to Window 8 and it pretty much made me laugh. Why would we? By the time we finished rolling out Windows 8 and working out the kinks Windows 10 would be out, our Windows 7 is stable and will be supported for many more years.
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"The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, as lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras." - Wikipedia
In 1995 McArthur Wheeler actually tested this beforehand with a camera. One way or another his test proved he was invisible, at least to himself.... (lens cap maybe? bad film? somehow didn't get himself in frame when taking the picture?).. He robbed two banks in plain daylight. Later was showed the CCTV footage and still didn't understand how it captured his face..
I read about this a few months ago and just found this to be one of the funniest things. Imagine doing something so stupid a whole psychological theory was inspired.
I went to the 2600 meetings in Houston several times in the very late 90s. They were pretty interesting, but the most interesting thing was how we had people taking our photos from a distance. I remember about 8pm in the evening someone dressed in a FedEx uniform taking our photo... We waved to him and tried to get him to come over.. He didn't seem interested. It was a gathering in plain clothes in public with nothing really drawing attention to it being a meeting of any sort.. Just was interesting.. Figure it was just another little star on my profile the government was keeping on me. Paranoid? Well they knew quite a bit about me when they came to knock on my door one time...
and run a site from there.. I can can setup any level of encryption, authentication, etc I want and not have to charge, carry that thing around, rely on wifi and sell out $200.
I don't have an answer to accomplish what you are talking about however....
You can typically get a T1 line installed anywhere.. The prices vary, last one I had was $400 a month but that was about 30 miles from the closest city 10 miles down a paved country road and another mile or so down a dirt road and almost 200 miles from the closest city with an internet backbone. You might find out you can get a T1 or something along those lines for less than I was at that time.. I split my connection with my neighbor..
Impressive that GM/Chevrolet managed to get from design to production with this in place and no one bringing up this fact. I have known about 'one party consent states', 'all party consent states' and wiretapping laws for decades. I could have understood if this was video only, the moment you put audio the whole game changes and it is baffling no one there caught that or stopped it..
I have have a 163 IQ. I was capable of making straight A's in high school, but was bored I just acted out and got in trouble. What they called Advanced classes was the top 25-30 students out of a class of 100 people (small school), which was a joke. I was the person who made an A on the test but didn't do a few daily grades here or there and things of that nature. In college I have a 4.0 but it was mind numbing to keep that grade. College for the most part was pure memorization and doing the daily work..
The point of this is that grades do not reflect IQ.
I have been using computers since the Commodore 64. First PC was 386 33mhz etc with DOS and Windows 3.1. The windows 3.1 rarely got used until I needed a web browser for the "new" thing called the internet that normal people were just starting to use (1995ish). Early on I was introduced to Linux (slackware and debian), I have ran many flavors of it over the years. I ran it as my desktop for about a year back around 1999. I ran 95,98,ME (very briefly), 2k and I was a very long time XP user and besides the general lack of 64bit support I find it a great OS (better than 7 for me personally). Most of 7's "features" were things I disabled right after installing the OS. Superfect was one thing i was looking forward to, but I also ended up disabling since it really offers no benefit if you have a fast SSD. I ran servers for years at my home, mainly for popular websites.
As of today if I go to setup a server I will be installing some flavor of linux/bsd/linux without question. I have tried Windows Server OS versions many times and every time, they were unstable, used more resources than linux, etc. I'll admit I haven't tried a Windows Server OS in the last 6 years and I hope not to for at least another 6.
Desktop? I'll install Windows 7. I am not a big gamer, but there is no comparison game wise between any other OS. I also have a lot of apps I am just used to using. Yes most might work in Wine or whatever and I have made most work it just isn't worth all the effort, at least in my eyes. To me setting up Linux as a desktop and getting it to where I would want it for my taste is a lot of work and headache. I have done it a few times on a dual boot and at some point I end up booting back up Windows and that partition with Linux just sits there eating up space on my SSD.
Windows 8 metro UI whatever, as everyone here already knows is designed for tablets and touchscreen. Windows 8 + (one of the many start menu replacements) really isn't bad, but I'll stick with 7 which I really do not think is really any better than XP.
Linux is fast, stable and just amazing in many aspects.. I think if we ever see the "Linux Desktop" it will be in the form of Android or something Similar.
Companies, stock holders, CEOs etc just squeeze any company to the point of death demanding more profit then move on to the next company, EA is just another company in the list.
Yeah EA is a terrible company for many reasons, they have bought several companies I loved and ruined the games. Maybe I am wrong and a good company will buy them up and restore some of the titles to their former glory....
People in a situation/country where things are that bad, the last then they should care about is the legality of their software. I think its funny the Microsoft employee didn't know it was like that before he got there it is common knowledge to IT people.
It is so annoying everytime if I just want to look at a file or to open it in different editor, or delete I file I need first to search the app that opened it. In Linux you just open the file with whatever you want, move it, delete it, etc. no problems.
Unlocker 1.9.1 shell extension works great for that. (google it)
1. Interactive tiles This might be useful once I get used to it. 2. Task Manager Eh. It better yes... Still will require 3rd party tools myself here or there 3. Run ISOs and VHDs natively I been doing this ages with 3rd party programs.. Eh. If it does it good enough maybe I won't need the 3rd party program.. I suspect I still will though. 4. No new hardware requirements Ok.. Don't see why the OS really would over 7. 5. Airplane mode Ok.. Why not... I won't use it but a good idea.. 6. SkyDrive integration Not seeing myself use this but sure... 7. Windows Store Humm.. No thanks? 8. Interactive lock screen Yeah I'll disable this.. 9. Split-screen apps Ugg.. no please? 10. Split touch keyboard Umm.. No use for me atm.. I would dislike that on tablet too.. 11. App contracts Umm.. Its like they are turning their OS into a phone OS. 12. Fewer surprise restarts About fu$@$*% time.. 13. Cross-device synchronisation Eh.. They sure are trying to get 8 on everyones phones and tablets. 14. Improved 3G support Cool. 15. Built-in antivirus Eh.. Depending on how annoying it is, i'll disable it. 16. Picture passwords Lame 17. Instant search Um.. Well the search in XP is worthless I have to use a 3rd party program. I'll try it. 18. Windows To Go Cool I guess.. I got no use for it but others.. 19. Secure Boot Ugg. I am sure this will cause problems... I hope to disable this.. 20. Revamped Explorer I dislike most every explorer change. I have to do about 20 registry hacks to make it usable as it is.. 21. Restore PC Ok..... I doubt I will use that.. 22. Thumbnail previews ugg. 23. Metro groups uggg 24. Kinect for Windows ehh.. Rather use a controller. 25. AppLocker Ok.. not for end users.. 26. Reset PC Lol.. I like the idea.. That will fun though for peoples kids to do to their parents PC. 27. File copy revamp humm ok... Better I guess 28. Faster boot times Okay.. cool.. 29. Native USB 3 support Cool 30. Panoramic background images Good
Exactly. for me it is either Time Warner or DSL. A few blocks south or east the only option is Time Warner. A few miles in some direction there is no DSL or Cable, people have to use Dial up, Satellite, or 3G. While I do I have pretty good service, I would have much faster, better and possibly cheaper if there was competition.
I agree.. Time Warner in my area, their lowest package I think will go above 300KB/s. I have their 2nd lowest package and I get at the very least 1.5MB/s, usually it is 1.7-1.8MB/s
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Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. Most the images looked virtually identical, but the main image where the PC showed more detail I just see jpeg artifacts as you said. I looked up at the URL and saw .JPG and thought.... wow you went through all this trouble to show which was better and you ruined your visuals by using JPG when PNG was right there probably one drop down box away when you were saving the images.. At this rate I am not sure if they save the screen shots in JPG then put them together in say Adobe Photoshop then saved them in JPG yet again..
One phrase I have not heard this election cycle is "Tea Party Candidate", nor have I seen any coverage of any Tea Party anything. They need to bring all that back, that much more fun to watch.
Speaking for workstations/desktops: Every business I know or dealt with has no plans to go to Windows 8.x, ever. They all buy desktops that might come with Windows 8 but they just get imaged to Windows 7. Most of them lagged getting away from XP and they just now got to 7. My best guess is Windows 10 will be the successor after it comes out and proves to be stable and usable as a desktop OS.
I heard one tech recently say something about how we should upgrade to Window 8 and it pretty much made me laugh. Why would we? By the time we finished rolling out Windows 8 and working out the kinks Windows 10 would be out, our Windows 7 is stable and will be supported for many more years.
FTA: "These gains did not come at the expense of Windows 7, which still managed to grow 0.34 points to 53.05 percent."
How to disable SSLv3 and test it.
https://zmap.io/sslv3/browsers...
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Find your own citation out of these 5,780 results
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"The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, as lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras." - Wikipedia
In 1995 McArthur Wheeler actually tested this beforehand with a camera. One way or another his test proved he was invisible, at least to himself.... (lens cap maybe? bad film? somehow didn't get himself in frame when taking the picture?).. He robbed two banks in plain daylight. Later was showed the CCTV footage and still didn't understand how it captured his face..
I read about this a few months ago and just found this to be one of the funniest things. Imagine doing something so stupid a whole psychological theory was inspired.
I went to the 2600 meetings in Houston several times in the very late 90s. They were pretty interesting, but the most interesting thing was how we had people taking our photos from a distance. I remember about 8pm in the evening someone dressed in a FedEx uniform taking our photo... We waved to him and tried to get him to come over.. He didn't seem interested. It was a gathering in plain clothes in public with nothing really drawing attention to it being a meeting of any sort.. Just was interesting.. Figure it was just another little star on my profile the government was keeping on me. Paranoid? Well they knew quite a bit about me when they came to knock on my door one time...
I agree, before I would do all that I would just setup a server maybe at..
https://aws.amazon.com/free/
and run a site from there.. I can can setup any level of encryption, authentication, etc I want and not have to charge, carry that thing around, rely on wifi and sell out $200.
I don't have an answer to accomplish what you are talking about however....
You can typically get a T1 line installed anywhere.. The prices vary, last one I had was $400 a month but that was about 30 miles from the closest city 10 miles down a paved country road and another mile or so down a dirt road and almost 200 miles from the closest city with an internet backbone. You might find out you can get a T1 or something along those lines for less than I was at that time.. I split my connection with my neighbor..
Impressive that GM/Chevrolet managed to get from design to production with this in place and no one bringing up this fact. I have known about 'one party consent states', 'all party consent states' and wiretapping laws for decades. I could have understood if this was video only, the moment you put audio the whole game changes and it is baffling no one there caught that or stopped it..
I hope they call me one day so I can play dumb and let them into one of my worthless virtual machines..
I have have a 163 IQ. I was capable of making straight A's in high school, but was bored I just acted out and got in trouble. What they called Advanced classes was the top 25-30 students out of a class of 100 people (small school), which was a joke. I was the person who made an A on the test but didn't do a few daily grades here or there and things of that nature. In college I have a 4.0 but it was mind numbing to keep that grade. College for the most part was pure memorization and doing the daily work..
The point of this is that grades do not reflect IQ.
DEF CON - https://www.defcon.org/
I have been using computers since the Commodore 64. First PC was 386 33mhz etc with DOS and Windows 3.1. The windows 3.1 rarely got used until I needed a web browser for the "new" thing called the internet that normal people were just starting to use (1995ish). Early on I was introduced to Linux (slackware and debian), I have ran many flavors of it over the years. I ran it as my desktop for about a year back around 1999. I ran 95,98,ME (very briefly), 2k and I was a very long time XP user and besides the general lack of 64bit support I find it a great OS (better than 7 for me personally). Most of 7's "features" were things I disabled right after installing the OS. Superfect was one thing i was looking forward to, but I also ended up disabling since it really offers no benefit if you have a fast SSD. I ran servers for years at my home, mainly for popular websites.
As of today if I go to setup a server I will be installing some flavor of linux/bsd/linux without question. I have tried Windows Server OS versions many times and every time, they were unstable, used more resources than linux, etc. I'll admit I haven't tried a Windows Server OS in the last 6 years and I hope not to for at least another 6.
Desktop? I'll install Windows 7. I am not a big gamer, but there is no comparison game wise between any other OS. I also have a lot of apps I am just used to using. Yes most might work in Wine or whatever and I have made most work it just isn't worth all the effort, at least in my eyes. To me setting up Linux as a desktop and getting it to where I would want it for my taste is a lot of work and headache. I have done it a few times on a dual boot and at some point I end up booting back up Windows and that partition with Linux just sits there eating up space on my SSD.
Windows 8 metro UI whatever, as everyone here already knows is designed for tablets and touchscreen. Windows 8 + (one of the many start menu replacements) really isn't bad, but I'll stick with 7 which I really do not think is really any better than XP.
Linux is fast, stable and just amazing in many aspects.. I think if we ever see the "Linux Desktop" it will be in the form of Android or something Similar.
Companies, stock holders, CEOs etc just squeeze any company to the point of death demanding more profit then move on to the next company, EA is just another company in the list.
Yeah EA is a terrible company for many reasons, they have bought several companies I loved and ruined the games. Maybe I am wrong and a good company will buy them up and restore some of the titles to their former glory....
People in a situation/country where things are that bad, the last then they should care about is the legality of their software. I think its funny the Microsoft employee didn't know it was like that before he got there it is common knowledge to IT people.
#1, delete opened files.
It is so annoying everytime if I just want to look at a file or to open it in different editor, or delete I file I need first to search the app that opened it. In Linux you just open the file with whatever you want, move it, delete it, etc. no problems.
Unlocker 1.9.1 shell extension works great for that. (google it)
I am still an XP user atm...
1. Interactive tiles
This might be useful once I get used to it.
2. Task Manager
Eh. It better yes... Still will require 3rd party tools myself here or there
3. Run ISOs and VHDs natively
I been doing this ages with 3rd party programs.. Eh. If it does it good enough maybe I won't need the 3rd party program.. I suspect I still will though.
4. No new hardware requirements
Ok.. Don't see why the OS really would over 7.
5. Airplane mode
Ok.. Why not... I won't use it but a good idea..
6. SkyDrive integration
Not seeing myself use this but sure...
7. Windows Store
Humm.. No thanks?
8. Interactive lock screen
Yeah I'll disable this..
9. Split-screen apps
Ugg.. no please?
10. Split touch keyboard
Umm.. No use for me atm.. I would dislike that on tablet too..
11. App contracts
Umm.. Its like they are turning their OS into a phone OS.
12. Fewer surprise restarts
About fu$@$*% time..
13. Cross-device synchronisation
Eh.. They sure are trying to get 8 on everyones phones and tablets.
14. Improved 3G support
Cool.
15. Built-in antivirus
Eh.. Depending on how annoying it is, i'll disable it.
16. Picture passwords
Lame
17. Instant search
Um.. Well the search in XP is worthless I have to use a 3rd party program. I'll try it.
18. Windows To Go
Cool I guess.. I got no use for it but others..
19. Secure Boot
Ugg. I am sure this will cause problems... I hope to disable this..
20. Revamped Explorer
I dislike most every explorer change. I have to do about 20 registry hacks to make it usable as it is..
21. Restore PC
Ok..... I doubt I will use that..
22. Thumbnail previews
ugg.
23. Metro groups
uggg
24. Kinect for Windows
ehh.. Rather use a controller.
25. AppLocker
Ok.. not for end users..
26. Reset PC
Lol.. I like the idea.. That will fun though for peoples kids to do to their parents PC.
27. File copy revamp
humm ok... Better I guess
28. Faster boot times
Okay.. cool..
29. Native USB 3 support
Cool
30. Panoramic background images
Good
I like s/©//g better myself
So McAfee is trying to find ways to kill my grandmaw?
From page 148 of the book 'WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy' by David Leigh (Author), Luke Harding (Author)
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Exactly. for me it is either Time Warner or DSL. A few blocks south or east the only option is Time Warner. A few miles in some direction there is no DSL or Cable, people have to use Dial up, Satellite, or 3G. While I do I have pretty good service, I would have much faster, better and possibly cheaper if there was competition.
I agree.. Time Warner in my area, their lowest package I think will go above 300KB/s. I have their 2nd lowest package and I get at the very least 1.5MB/s, usually it is 1.7-1.8MB/s
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:csaNGT3VYK0J:www.mozilla.org/community/mirrors.html
Some (not all) direct Links
North America
http://mirror3.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
Europe Mirrors
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
Asia
http://jp-nii01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
Japan Mirrors
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://kyoto-mz-dl.sinet.ad.jp/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
Mid East Mirrors
http://mozilla.saudi.net.sa/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
South America
http://mozilla.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/firefox/releases/4.0b9/
Belarus
http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b9/