There are a few wrappers with nearly the same syntax as apt for cygwin, meaning you don't have to run the cygwin installer to do package installs / dependency calculations.
Check out Sage sometime, makes the occasional install in a cygwin environment a breeze.
Oh, and I'm sure the kettle only holds a single cup of tea worth of water, not like they make kettles that heat 1.5L+ water right? I mean that would be insane! you could reboil the water multiple times a day without having to refill it, and whoever heard of THAT?
When is the last time you have heard about a new technology that just sprang up 100% fully formed and functional? Home automation is still in its infancy, of course it isn't going to do every little niggling thing for you.
Your whole premise is extremely flawed. There is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing super special about any of the phones on the market that makes it so any competent Electrical Engineer can't do a post mortem AND competently indicate to the maker what exactly the order of events were. Samsung knows what was where and can piece together scenarios from that, and request further clarifications.
Samsung is not the only company that can make determination about devices, any competent EE can. An EE from Nokia / LG / SpaceX / any damn company that Employs competently trained EE's could tell you the what where and reasonable hypothesis of why of the failure.
Nope. Capacity is used, if capacity was consumed that capacity would no longer be there when usage drops until physically replaced. It should be obvious that this isn't the case.
You can argue that bandwidth is a finite resource ( since it is ), but with proper** QoS routing and shaping this is less of an issue than the big ISPs want you to think.
The only reason that ISPs are whining right now is that they are severely oversold on their capacity, and they don't want to upgrade the capacity they have. The data going over the networks right now cost little to nothing due to peering and transfer arrangements. They want to be able to charge more and provide less service on the same capacity without spending a dime, just so they can rake in more money in profit. Period.
** Shaping and QoS doesn't mean just throttle the hell out of a fast transfer, it's all about routing and timing. You can get a decent throughput for quite a few clients on a pipe without throttling the hell out of any of them with properly configured QoS.
Not to mention some stuff falls to the ground or the ocean bottom, never to return its oxygen again.
Never to be seen again on the human time scale, seen again rather quickly on the Geologic time scale. The oldest Ocean crust we know of is only ~200-400 million years old. Ocean crust both outgasses through cracks in the lithosphere ( including volcanic vents when melting occurs in subduction ), as well as being recycled back into mantle material that can and will eventually erupt again.
Hydrogen wasn't even mentioned in TFS, in fact it says 2 or more times the helium was for cooling OXYGEN.
Furthermore, if you do any half assed research you would know that the engines run on RP-1, which is basically kerosene, also known in generally similar chemical compositions with minor additive changes as jet fuel, and #1 diesel fuel. Much more energy dense than hydrogen as a fuel.
This is just precious. Next explain how you, the erstwhile IT guy, goes about telling the people who decided long ago that they were going to go with the gold standard of the industry, Microsoft - that they have to change their Operating system.
Easy, in a way they can understand. This would include risk assessments, cost : benefit ratios, short / medium term benefit : inevitable data breach cost ratios, and if necessary lots of pretty charts and graphs if words are too hard for your upper echelon to understand. And documentation that you actually both made the suggestions, and gave detailed data on what could and probably will happen in the case of them not taking suggestions in case they still decide not to follow their IT teams advice, just to cover your own ass to even higher management infrastructure.
In short, explain it in terms of money.
Anyone who CAN'T make a compelling case in IT probably shouldn't be in IT.
I have over 120 hours into The Witcher 3 to finish the game, and am nowhere near having all achievements unlocked. Add in another 35 or so hours for the two expansion packs I got on a steam sale for $24 and it is pretty much three times as long as your game, and only ~60% completed ( if counting all achievements ).
I haven't even started on the free DLC for the game yet either...
So in other words you can't judge the length of one game by another, only by what it was supposed to be by itself. And NMS was supposed to be in the hundreds ( that's multiple ) of hours. It wasn't. It was also supposed to have features that it doesn't.
Much like hazmat endorsements now for truck drivers - get fingerprinted by the FBI and background checks ETC.... because apparently if a terrorist wanted to use a truck full of nasty shit in a plot they would get fully licensed, rather than just steal the damn truck.
Completely and utterly useless? Does absolutely nothing for what it was intended to do? That's how the government is going to do it!
If it is used incredibly rarely then offload it to a tablet or a PC or (heaven forbid) a phone. Let people load the menus they actually need and want on to the phone and put an interface on the camera that doesn't suck
Yeah, make it so another piece of equipment is REQUIRED to change settings, that sounds like a menu that I want..... NOT.
Wrong. If the menu isn't useful then it was designed wrong. A feature that isn't efficient is a bad feature.
The menu on Canon hardware is just fine. As stated before, all commonly needed adjustments are available on the outside of the camera body. If you don't want the options to control the little details to set up the camera to YOUR personal photography style ( that you generally change major components of very few times in the camera life ) then go buy a point and shoot instead of a mid / high end DSLR.
I have quite literally worn out two Canon DSLRs and shot well over a million captures, and never once has the menu gotten in my way of getting the capture I wanted. Especially now, with the tilting / touch screens available, you very rarely have to go into the menus unless you are changing some very deep level stuff in the camera. These are the things that are pretty much pro level, and get changed only several times over the life of the camera. It would be stupid to take the control away from users since these items are generally changed at setup time to personalize the camera to the buyers style.
Likewise, having two differing menu styles for entry level / high end DSLR cameras is stupid. Not only is it more work, but it would be a barrier to people progressing up your product line if they had to not only learn the lower end product, but then re-learn everything once they decide to try a higher end product. As it is right now I can grab the bottom of the barrel entry level Rebel DSLR or the top of the line 1DS that is out right now and use either one without having to really think about the menus or how to set them up... and that is how it should be.
Umm, no, it's you who fails at contextual comprehension.
The idea that a pedestrian has to cross in a marked crossing in every situation is a stupid one, and people who espouse it are both stupid and ignorant. As stated in my quotation above, in several states a pedestrian can cross anywhere at need.
In none of my comments did I say pedestrians are limited to crossing anywhere. I did note, however, that the only places they are granted exclusive Right of Way are in crosswalks. I even made it explicit that when not crossing at cross walks traffic has the exclusive Right of Way in most cases, which does NOT say that a pedestrian is never allowed to cross.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the other comments on this story before you leave comments that prove that you are experiencing verbal diarrhea.
I don't care what you said elsewhere in the comments. I was addressing what you said to me, after you almost seemingly intentionally misconstrued what my post said. All you have done so far is try to weasel your way around every refutation against what you stated wrongly. Admit that you made a mistake and move on.
Subd. 3.Crossing between intersections. (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway . [1]
D.C. :
Stop - controlled or uncontrolled intersection Pedestrians may cross the roadway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk. However, no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb, safety platform, safety zone, loading platform or other designated place of safety and walk or turn into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. [2]
Crossing at spots other than crosswalks - If a pedestrian crosses a roadway at any point other than in a marked crosswalk at an intersection, the pedestrian shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle [2]
Actually it is mostly the pedestrians fault, according to the way the story reads. Both parties may have been semi-distracted, but the pedestrian only has the right of way under certain circumstances, as detailed below. From what data we have available the pedestrian walked out in front of the vehicle with only enough room for computer assisted braking to save him from being struck.
Pedestrians only have the right of way:
by almost, if not all laws written, 1: in a marked cross walk ( convenient how this is left off in the quote all the time, no? ) and 2: only when it is safe for them to cross.
For number 2, many states have it written into the lawbooks that pedestrians who dart out in front of cars when the driver does not have an adequate and reasonable means of stopping have given up their right of way, and have actually committed a cite-able violation themselves. Many times, also, crossing outside of marked crosswalks is "at will" as well, with absolutely no expectation of having a right of way.
i5 4590, 32GB RAM, reference GTX980, 128GB OS drive, 8TB ( currently, some disks are down and haven't been replaced yet ) of spinning rust storage. All run on a Server2k12R2 workstation. Razer Mech keyboard.
Also running 3+ Linux VMs and one FreeBSD VM at all times. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom almost always running. Hooked up to a Sony Bravia 40" 1920x1080 color corrected TV for display
Mobile workstation:
Lenovo with an i5 and 16GB RAM, hooked up to who knows what display since laptop displays generally suck. Still running Windows 8.1. 2x 1TB spinning rust drives.
Highly mobile laptop for Word / excel / taking Photoshop / Lightroom along:
2014 Retina Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM and an i5. Usually has some type of external storage hanging out of it since the internal drive is only 128GB. Fuck El Capitan, still running Yosemite.
Should be the same as KDE 3.x / 4.x was - I haven't had a chance to try the 5.x releases yet.... its a global thing, not a dolphin setting. For some reason the defaults are for single clicking to open everything.
KMenu > settings > systemsettings > input devices > mouse tab ( assuming you right clicked the menu and told it to use classic style, otherwise just search for systemsettings in the newer style menu )
Select the radio button by " Double click to open files and folders ( single click to select first)".
Heh, some places the Yakuza don't even bother with that whole setup.
I was in Japan last year and stopped at a Pachinko after several friends recommended trying just to say I did. Holy hell are those places noisy!
Got a magnetic card with my winnings afterwards and had to go to a sketchy shack right in the parking lot, a shack that only had a slot barely big enough for a hand to fit through. Took the card through the slot, and handed out the money at the same time.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Period.
An engine brake shuts off fuel and closes one set of valves, to slightly raise compression in the pistons. There is no way in hell the engine heats up MORE by only compressing air, than by compressing air + fuel and then having the fuel BURN AND EXPLODE.
About the only thing you had right was that engine brakes don't recover energy. And even there the engine COOLS and dumps remaining heat through the normal cooling system, so you were more than half-wrong.
And yeah, I know what I am talking about, I drove truck for more than 8 years. If your rig is running hot, hope you can find a hill to jake down since a good long one will dump off 60-80+ degrees from your engine easily. Hell even just downshifting to a turn from highway speed can lower higher than normal highways temps by 20+ degrees.
How about removing all the so-called 'telemetry' and other privacy-invading malware bullshit and return control of peoples' computers to the people who own and operate them? Or will not being assholes cut into your profit margin too much?
Telemetry would be fine if we could trust that it was completely non-identifying . Telemetry is how they knew almost no one was using this "feature" after all.
I don't trust them to not make use of identifying stuff and / or using and selling the info to advertisers though. Anything more than "this feature is being used, and that one isn't" with no machine / personal identification is too much. I can understand wanting to know about how many OS installs there are and how many times each feature is enabled / disabled, but knowing all emails / keystrokes / files / or whatever else MS has been caught snooping in is taking it way, WAY to far.
The processors they are dropping support for, according to the mailing list, are approximately from the Windows 95 era of computing.... AMD K6 ( a tad newer ) and Intel Pentium / Pentium W/ MMX. That's Win9.x era hardware that even if you could get XP to boot on, it wouldn't be a fun experience.
Frankly I don't know how anyone is still running a usable system on that ancient of hardware without custom tuning the hell out of their kernel and applications anyway, as those systems had extremely small amounts of RAM.
How exactly is this excessive? Did you even read the admittedly horrible engrish translation of what actually happened?
The hotel paid him for photos in 2011. The hotel was to be able to use these photos on their website, and internal printings no larger than A5, and for no more than 3 years.
In 2016 the hotel was caught still using the images. In 2016 the hotel was also finally noticed claiming copyrights that they do not own and licensing / selling "their" copyrights worldwide[1]. To add insult to injury, the hotel then offers him 750 euros, but said that if he took that money the hotel could use the photos for another two years.
So not only did the hotel violate his copyright, the hotel also violated the contract they had with him as well. The hotel absolutely should be slapped with a large enough judgement against them that they feel it. Not only because they violated several laws, but as an example ( and precedent ) to other large corporations that they are not above the law, and will be accountable for their actions.
[1] This directly harmed the photographer. He did neither got paid for this work, nor attribution so he could further his career. He very well may have gotten a large sum of money if all of these magazines / newspapers had licensed these images from him, as well as the future profits from name recognition.
Honestly, and I don't know if this is still the case but, how about when "upgrading" to the newest release the recommended way is to reinstall the damn system since their update methods are / were nowhere near reliable enough.
I'll take Debian thanks, upgrading from release to release is easily do able, with well documented errata and workarounds posted.
Then there is the fact that they feel the need to take Debian UNSTABLE, screw around with it a bit and probably introduce some extra bugs, and then call it STABLE software at 1/4 the time Debian or RedHat - actual stable systems releasers - usually takes.
To be fair to the BART designers though, If I designed something that lasted twice a long as specced and carried four times the passenger load, I'd be pretty happy.
Actually it is closer to 30 times the passenger load, TFS lists the original spec of 100k / week , with todays usage of 430k / day... or ~3 million / week.
CS2 won't help here, the earliest release supported by these plugins is CS4.
Windows Requirements ( mostly the same as Mac except Mac is only supported 10.7.5 - 10.10 ) : Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Windows 8 Adobe Photoshop CS4 through CC 2015 Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 through 13 (apart from HDR Efex Pro 2, which is not compatible with Photoshop Elements) Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 through 6/CC
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There are a few wrappers with nearly the same syntax as apt for cygwin, meaning you don't have to run the cygwin installer to do package installs / dependency calculations.
Check out Sage sometime, makes the occasional install in a cygwin environment a breeze.
Nice "no true Scotsman" there.
Oh, and I'm sure the kettle only holds a single cup of tea worth of water, not like they make kettles that heat 1.5L+ water right? I mean that would be insane! you could reboil the water multiple times a day without having to refill it, and whoever heard of THAT?
When is the last time you have heard about a new technology that just sprang up 100% fully formed and functional? Home automation is still in its infancy, of course it isn't going to do every little niggling thing for you.
Sorry but no. Just no.
Your whole premise is extremely flawed. There is absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing super special about any of the phones on the market that makes it so any competent Electrical Engineer can't do a post mortem AND competently indicate to the maker what exactly the order of events were. Samsung knows what was where and can piece together scenarios from that, and request further clarifications.
Samsung is not the only company that can make determination about devices, any competent EE can. An EE from Nokia / LG / SpaceX / any damn company that Employs competently trained EE's could tell you the what where and reasonable hypothesis of why of the failure.
Nope. Capacity is used, if capacity was consumed that capacity would no longer be there when usage drops until physically replaced. It should be obvious that this isn't the case.
You can argue that bandwidth is a finite resource ( since it is ), but with proper** QoS routing and shaping this is less of an issue than the big ISPs want you to think.
The only reason that ISPs are whining right now is that they are severely oversold on their capacity, and they don't want to upgrade the capacity they have. The data going over the networks right now cost little to nothing due to peering and transfer arrangements. They want to be able to charge more and provide less service on the same capacity without spending a dime, just so they can rake in more money in profit. Period.
** Shaping and QoS doesn't mean just throttle the hell out of a fast transfer, it's all about routing and timing. You can get a decent throughput for quite a few clients on a pipe without throttling the hell out of any of them with properly configured QoS.
Not to mention some stuff falls to the ground or the ocean bottom, never to return its oxygen again.
Never to be seen again on the human time scale, seen again rather quickly on the Geologic time scale. The oldest Ocean crust we know of is only ~200-400 million years old. Ocean crust both outgasses through cracks in the lithosphere ( including volcanic vents when melting occurs in subduction ), as well as being recycled back into mantle material that can and will eventually erupt again.
Is your sig from first hand experience or what?
Hydrogen wasn't even mentioned in TFS, in fact it says 2 or more times the helium was for cooling OXYGEN.
Furthermore, if you do any half assed research you would know that the engines run on RP-1, which is basically kerosene, also known in generally similar chemical compositions with minor additive changes as jet fuel, and #1 diesel fuel. Much more energy dense than hydrogen as a fuel.
This is just precious. Next explain how you, the erstwhile IT guy, goes about telling the people who decided long ago that they were going to go with the gold standard of the industry, Microsoft - that they have to change their Operating system.
Easy, in a way they can understand. This would include risk assessments, cost : benefit ratios, short / medium term benefit : inevitable data breach cost ratios, and if necessary lots of pretty charts and graphs if words are too hard for your upper echelon to understand. And documentation that you actually both made the suggestions, and gave detailed data on what could and probably will happen in the case of them not taking suggestions in case they still decide not to follow their IT teams advice, just to cover your own ass to even higher management infrastructure.
In short, explain it in terms of money.
Anyone who CAN'T make a compelling case in IT probably shouldn't be in IT.
So you played a short game, so what?
I have over 120 hours into The Witcher 3 to finish the game, and am nowhere near having all achievements unlocked. Add in another 35 or so hours for the two expansion packs I got on a steam sale for $24 and it is pretty much three times as long as your game, and only ~60% completed ( if counting all achievements ).
I haven't even started on the free DLC for the game yet either...
So in other words you can't judge the length of one game by another, only by what it was supposed to be by itself. And NMS was supposed to be in the hundreds ( that's multiple ) of hours. It wasn't. It was also supposed to have features that it doesn't.
Just standard government retardation.
Much like hazmat endorsements now for truck drivers - get fingerprinted by the FBI and background checks ETC.... because apparently if a terrorist wanted to use a truck full of nasty shit in a plot they would get fully licensed, rather than just steal the damn truck.
Completely and utterly useless? Does absolutely nothing for what it was intended to do? That's how the government is going to do it!
If it is used incredibly rarely then offload it to a tablet or a PC or (heaven forbid) a phone. Let people load the menus they actually need and want on to the phone and put an interface on the camera that doesn't suck
Yeah, make it so another piece of equipment is REQUIRED to change settings, that sounds like a menu that I want..... NOT.
Wrong. If the menu isn't useful then it was designed wrong. A feature that isn't efficient is a bad feature.
The menu on Canon hardware is just fine. As stated before, all commonly needed adjustments are available on the outside of the camera body. If you don't want the options to control the little details to set up the camera to YOUR personal photography style ( that you generally change major components of very few times in the camera life ) then go buy a point and shoot instead of a mid / high end DSLR.
I have quite literally worn out two Canon DSLRs and shot well over a million captures, and never once has the menu gotten in my way of getting the capture I wanted. Especially now, with the tilting / touch screens available, you very rarely have to go into the menus unless you are changing some very deep level stuff in the camera. These are the things that are pretty much pro level, and get changed only several times over the life of the camera. It would be stupid to take the control away from users since these items are generally changed at setup time to personalize the camera to the buyers style.
Likewise, having two differing menu styles for entry level / high end DSLR cameras is stupid. Not only is it more work, but it would be a barrier to people progressing up your product line if they had to not only learn the lower end product, but then re-learn everything once they decide to try a higher end product. As it is right now I can grab the bottom of the barrel entry level Rebel DSLR or the top of the line 1DS that is out right now and use either one without having to really think about the menus or how to set them up... and that is how it should be.
Umm, no, it's you who fails at contextual comprehension.
The idea that a pedestrian has to cross in a marked crossing in every situation is a stupid one, and people who espouse it are both stupid and ignorant. As stated in my quotation above, in several states a pedestrian can cross anywhere at need.
In none of my comments did I say pedestrians are limited to crossing anywhere. I did note, however, that the only places they are granted exclusive Right of Way are in crosswalks. I even made it explicit that when not crossing at cross walks traffic has the exclusive Right of Way in most cases, which does NOT say that a pedestrian is never allowed to cross.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the other comments on this story before you leave comments that prove that you are experiencing verbal diarrhea.
I don't care what you said elsewhere in the comments. I was addressing what you said to me, after you almost seemingly intentionally misconstrued what my post said. All you have done so far is try to weasel your way around every refutation against what you stated wrongly. Admit that you made a mistake and move on.
Anyways, I am done here. Have a good day.
Minnesota:
Subd. 3.Crossing between intersections. (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway . [1]
D.C. :
Stop - controlled or
uncontrolled intersection
Pedestrians may cross the roadway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk. However,
no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb, safety platform, safety zone, loading
platform or other designated place of safety and walk or turn into the path of a vehicle
which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. [2]
Crossing at spots other than crosswalks - If a pedestrian crosses a roadway at any point other than in a marked crosswalk at an
intersection, the pedestrian shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle [2]
[1] https://www.revisor.mn.gov/sta...
[2] http://ddot.dc.gov/sites/defau...
Parts bolded for reference.
Hmm, who doesn't know the law properly?
38.6C, the temp it comes out of the cow.
Is it really that god damn difficult for you high UID monkeys to use a bit of simple logic? Do you really need literally everything spoon-fed to you?
Actually it is mostly the pedestrians fault, according to the way the story reads. Both parties may have been semi-distracted, but the pedestrian only has the right of way under certain circumstances, as detailed below. From what data we have available the pedestrian walked out in front of the vehicle with only enough room for computer assisted braking to save him from being struck.
Pedestrians only have the right of way:
by almost, if not all laws written, 1: in a marked cross walk ( convenient how this is left off in the quote all the time, no? ) and 2: only when it is safe for them to cross.
For number 2, many states have it written into the lawbooks that pedestrians who dart out in front of cars when the driver does not have an adequate and reasonable means of stopping have given up their right of way, and have actually committed a cite-able violation themselves. Many times, also, crossing outside of marked crosswalks is "at will" as well, with absolutely no expectation of having a right of way.
Meh,why not.
Main workstation / gaming:
i5 4590, 32GB RAM, reference GTX980, 128GB OS drive, 8TB ( currently, some disks are down and haven't been replaced yet ) of spinning rust storage. All run on a Server2k12R2 workstation. Razer Mech keyboard.
Also running 3+ Linux VMs and one FreeBSD VM at all times. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom almost always running.
Hooked up to a Sony Bravia 40" 1920x1080 color corrected TV for display
Mobile workstation:
Lenovo with an i5 and 16GB RAM, hooked up to who knows what display since laptop displays generally suck. Still running Windows 8.1.
2x 1TB spinning rust drives.
Highly mobile laptop for Word / excel / taking Photoshop / Lightroom along:
2014 Retina Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM and an i5. Usually has some type of external storage hanging out of it since the internal drive is only 128GB. Fuck El Capitan, still running Yosemite.
Uh, no.
Can we please get rid of the brain-damaged stupid networking comment
syntax style, PLEASE?
Pretty damn easy to understand that the syntax is "stupid and brain-damaged" is being said, and not that the writers are stupid or brain-damaged.
So, who again is the "stupid fucking idiot"?
Should be the same as KDE 3.x / 4.x was - I haven't had a chance to try the 5.x releases yet.... its a global thing, not a dolphin setting. For some reason the defaults are for single clicking to open everything.
KMenu > settings > systemsettings > input devices > mouse tab ( assuming you right clicked the menu and told it to use classic style, otherwise just search for systemsettings in the newer style menu )
Select the radio button by " Double click to open files and folders ( single click to select first)".
Heh, some places the Yakuza don't even bother with that whole setup.
I was in Japan last year and stopped at a Pachinko after several friends recommended trying just to say I did. Holy hell are those places noisy!
Got a magnetic card with my winnings afterwards and had to go to a sketchy shack right in the parking lot, a shack that only had a slot barely big enough for a hand to fit through. Took the card through the slot, and handed out the money at the same time.
You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Period.
An engine brake shuts off fuel and closes one set of valves, to slightly raise compression in the pistons. There is no way in hell the engine heats up MORE by only compressing air, than by compressing air + fuel and then having the fuel BURN AND EXPLODE.
About the only thing you had right was that engine brakes don't recover energy. And even there the engine COOLS and dumps remaining heat through the normal cooling system, so you were more than half-wrong.
And yeah, I know what I am talking about, I drove truck for more than 8 years. If your rig is running hot, hope you can find a hill to jake down since a good long one will dump off 60-80+ degrees from your engine easily. Hell even just downshifting to a turn from highway speed can lower higher than normal highways temps by 20+ degrees.
How about removing all the so-called 'telemetry' and other privacy-invading malware bullshit and return control of peoples' computers to the people who own and operate them? Or will not being assholes cut into your profit margin too much?
Telemetry would be fine if we could trust that it was completely non-identifying . Telemetry is how they knew almost no one was using this "feature" after all.
I don't trust them to not make use of identifying stuff and / or using and selling the info to advertisers though. Anything more than "this feature is being used, and that one isn't" with no machine / personal identification is too much. I can understand wanting to know about how many OS installs there are and how many times each feature is enabled / disabled, but knowing all emails / keystrokes / files / or whatever else MS has been caught snooping in is taking it way, WAY to far.
The processors they are dropping support for, according to the mailing list, are approximately from the Windows 95 era of computing.... AMD K6 ( a tad newer ) and Intel Pentium / Pentium W/ MMX. That's Win9.x era hardware that even if you could get XP to boot on, it wouldn't be a fun experience.
Frankly I don't know how anyone is still running a usable system on that ancient of hardware without custom tuning the hell out of their kernel and applications anyway, as those systems had extremely small amounts of RAM.
How exactly is this excessive? Did you even read the admittedly horrible engrish translation of what actually happened?
The hotel paid him for photos in 2011. The hotel was to be able to use these photos on their website, and internal printings no larger than A5, and for no more than 3 years.
In 2016 the hotel was caught still using the images. In 2016 the hotel was also finally noticed claiming copyrights that they do not own and licensing / selling "their" copyrights worldwide[1]. To add insult to injury, the hotel then offers him 750 euros, but said that if he took that money the hotel could use the photos for another two years.
So not only did the hotel violate his copyright, the hotel also violated the contract they had with him as well. The hotel absolutely should be slapped with a large enough judgement against them that they feel it. Not only because they violated several laws, but as an example ( and precedent ) to other large corporations that they are not above the law, and will be accountable for their actions.
[1] This directly harmed the photographer. He did neither got paid for this work, nor attribution so he could further his career. He very well may have gotten a large sum of money if all of these magazines / newspapers had licensed these images from him, as well as the future profits from name recognition.
Honestly, and I don't know if this is still the case but, how about when "upgrading" to the newest release the recommended way is to reinstall the damn system since their update methods are / were nowhere near reliable enough.
I'll take Debian thanks, upgrading from release to release is easily do able, with well documented errata and workarounds posted.
Then there is the fact that they feel the need to take Debian UNSTABLE, screw around with it a bit and probably introduce some extra bugs, and then call it STABLE software at 1/4 the time Debian or RedHat - actual stable systems releasers - usually takes.
To be fair to the BART designers though, If I designed something that lasted twice a long as specced and carried four times the passenger load, I'd be pretty happy.
Actually it is closer to 30 times the passenger load, TFS lists the original spec of 100k / week , with todays usage of 430k / day ... or ~3 million / week.
CS2 won't help here, the earliest release supported by these plugins is CS4.
Windows Requirements ( mostly the same as Mac except Mac is only supported 10.7.5 - 10.10 ) :
Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Windows 8
Adobe Photoshop CS4 through CC 2015
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 through 13 (apart from HDR Efex Pro 2, which is not compatible with Photoshop Elements)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 through 6/CC