If that were the case, they'd stop. Unfortunately, we're afraid of our government. It should be the other way around.
If they thought we'd revolt, they'd stop trying to take our liberties away. A good government has a healthy respect, which is fear, the citizenry. I want my government to know they have limits and that bad things will happen if they cross the line. I want my government to remember that we're armed and how hard it is to deal with an insurgency. I want my government to know that if the country ends up in a civil war that they'll be the first in front of the wall or at the gallows.
When the government has no fear of repercussions for their misdeeds, you get tyranny.
Yup. You should even have aptitude on your Windows box. You can apt-get install foo and run with it. I don't know how far they've come and I'm not going to go install Windows to find out but it's kind of amazing, isn't it? If I understand, it's getting the Ubuntu mini and you get that for starters. I almost want to install Windows in a VM to check it out but I'm afraid the recursion would collapse the universe or rip a whole in the time/space continuum.
I'm thinking, install Windows in a VM... Install Wine... Use Wine in Windows to run Windows apps. We could go squirrels all the way down if we install VirtualBox. Hell, I can get VMWare installed from the terminal without a problem. I won't even have to much about with VirtualBox though I'm not sure my VMWare license allows that sort of thing.
On a more serious note, it does sound interesting. As we move closer to the reality of SotC desktops, we move closer towards the world I envisioned years ago. Where it matters naught the OS but that you've space, RAM, and CPU cycles. Unfortunately, by the time it gets here, it will be nothing but fart apps and bots talking to each other.
*sighs* The world's changing and the dinosaurs need to go extinct on their own, lest they come hunting us.
Yes, yes I have read all the comments down to here. Funny, I never knew bash was so terrible. Does that mean I'm gonna have to change my evil ways or am I still allowed to use it? How about my own custom alias file, is that a relic of bygone years or can I keep it? 'Cause I really don't want to learn Python yet. No, I do not. I sort of plan on learning it - and even got some materials to do so. But I'd like to do it on my own terms and not have to give up the old ways quite so quickly.
Yes, yes I do have a terminal (terminator) window open on boot. Hell, even when I use(d) Windows, I like a command prompt window open.
Oddly, it's because I type pretty quickly and don't need to move my hands to the mouse. I just use the keyboard for a lot of things - including much of my web navigation. Maybe that's why I just can't get into the tablet format? I keep trying but no luck so far. Ah well... I'm going to go lay and egg somewhere creative and then climb into a tar pit.
For starters, don't be stupid and read your fucking email in plain text.
Don't take it personal... I've been giving that same lecture since about 1998. Stop reading the shit in HTML format. There are not that many rose graphics as backgrounds that are worth the risk. Plain text folks... Simple HTML works but, for the love of fuck, open a browser and paste in the copied address before visiting.
Know what the damned button does before you fucking click it!
Err... Yeah... Sorry, like I said, since about 1998... I'm kind of tired of telling people how to practice safe hex. They don't listen.
The outskirts of Winston-Salem are my favorite areas w/regards to NC. Lovely place, good people. I spent quite a while there, it's where our home office was. Well, I guess the office is still there - I just no longer own it. It does get a bit chilly there (for some people) but I retired to Maine so it's not like cold bothers me - but, I did spend the winter in Florida this year. I'm getting ready to go home again. Florida's getting too warm.
Here's an idea... Stop buying things that rely on the cloud.
Let me first state that yes, I agree, this sucks and is probably really close to the line of a civil offense - there's certainly merits for a civil case here but that's nothing worth discussing at the moment. It sucks, it really does.
Then, I have to ask, do you own one of these? From the looks of it, you do. This is what makes me curious...
"... that's what pisses me off about the IoT things I have..."
Umm... Why did you buy something that pisses you off? More importantly, why did you keep it instead of sending it back? Did you have any reason to think that this was going to work out well, when you bought things that pissed you off?
All I can picture is, "I don't like that. I don't like that one bit. It really pisses me off - to no end, too. I tell you Myrtle, this pisses me right off. I'm going to buy six and do you have another case of them in the back? Boy am I going to be pissed off now."
Sure but then you're ineligible to receive all the services your property taxes pay for. And no, don't pretend you'd still be fine. You're not fooling anyone. Hell, you probably don't even own any property.
Didn't you get the memo? We're Libertarians. We don't like taxes, government, or civilization. Oh, and we put the rights of the business ahead of the rights of the individual. I've been hearing people tell me that's what I believe for a while now. The funny thing is, I was with the party when they were first getting going - way back in the 1970s. Well, they'd been around a bit before that but things started to get a bit formal then.
And yet, I've never once minded paying my taxes. I don't even complain about my taxes.
What's funny is they say go to Somalia. I've been. They're not suffering from a lack of government. No, they've got more government than the EU and the USA combined. They're governed left, right, and center. It's no less a government when it's a war lord. It's just not an officially recognized government - it's still a government and they've got a whole bunch of 'em. Hell, they've got paperwork and bureaucracy too.
Really, the misconception is kind of silly. It's like they don't actually notice the whole "liberty" part of the word. You don't get a whole lot of liberties in an anarchy, not really. To be fair, we sure do have a whole bunch of idiots who self-identify as Libertarians. I can't say that I really blame people for being confused. It's not like we're about to take the microphone from them, so they get to shout the loudest. I think the vast majority of Libertarians think that Ayn Rand was an idiot and know that Rand Paul is not a Libertarian. We're just not as vocal as the others. We probably should be, someone needs to counteract them. I keep starting and stopping - the tide's just a bit too strong to deal with on my own.
I take it that you've been to Boston, then? Ramming you with their car is just an excuse so that they can stop you and have a neighborly chat. Remember, in Mass, if it happens behind the 'B-Pillar' (front doors of the car) then it didn't happen. Dents are just character, the more dents - the more character.
God, I love Boston. I could never live in the area again but I do have a place there that currently has a relative in it. It's up near Highland and Fort Ave - Beech Glen St. I've got family all over the place. I went to school up in Cambridge. I then started my company there before moving to N.C., actually.
So, assuming you're from the area, "How's a heahty fuck you for ya, ya fuckin' tally-whackin' queer?";-)
The accent still comes out once in a while, "What ah ya, fuckin' retahded or what, bub?"
I've been using Opera since the 1990s. We had to pay for it then. I've used it since, with some exceptions... From version 15 to 23, Opera sucked. At 24 they were usable again. At 28 - 29, they were good again. They're quite nice now. I keep all three versions installed (beta, dev, stable) and use them for various tasks with separated tabs that open by default, shared settings (some), and folders that are saved on the Speed Dial.
Then again...
I've got a half dozen text browsers, Firefox (a couple of versions), all the Opera, Midori, Vivaldi (three versions), Pale Moon, Dillo, and probably a few that I've forgotten. I know I've got a couple downloaded that aren't installed yet. I'm pretty browser agnostic but I always return to Opera. I keep the others and use them for varied tasks or to test things.
I'm kind of hell bent on keeping Opera, however. That's the big thing for me. I just return to it, always. The current incarnations are very good. If you're not enjoying the current versions that is because you choose not to. They work. They work fine. They're light and responsive (for a 2016 browser). They render well. You can set it up to use any Chromium/Chrome extension, and all that sort of stuff.
It's not that I care what browser you use but if you'd actively disliking Opera that's just silly. It does its job just fine. They kind of all do, these days. Well, except for the myriad text browsers I've installed but even those serve a purpose for me. Yes, yes I do go browse the 'net with elinks or lynx. Not often - but I do. Speaking of which, I've gotta recompile Dillo so that I have https support.
That's funny. I've been wondering what people mean when they say "flat" in reference to things like that. Now I know. I don't mind it but I do have one pet peeve with Vivaldi... Put the damned disable hardware acceleration button back!
It was never there - but it was in the code they got and forked. It's IN Chromium and Opera. I know, 'cause I have to tick the damned thing on two separate boxes with nVidia cards and using the free drivers. I have to! Or the MENU is BLACK and I can't see it. As is the address bar, as is the tab bar, as is random splotches around the screen.
They took out the button. It was there. It's in the same damned spot on all the other browsers based on the same code. They didn't take it out. Nope. But Vivaldi? They're like, "That might be handy, tear it out of there. That'll irk that KGIII for sure!" (Well, something like that.)
Fortunately, I'm kind of used to it. I just start it with vivildi --disable-gpu-compositing or vivaldi-snapshot --disable-gpu-blah-blah-blah... I know - 'cause that's how to get the other browsers started so that I can go in and change the menu option. I can't see it without that switch. But no... Vivaldi tore that button right out of there.
If I get an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, I'm 58, the last person I'm calling is a doctor. I'm calling a hooker, the lady next door, maybe even a pizza delivery company - not a doctor.
I've actually been wondering and asking, for a while now, why we can't just buy like a 5 cubic inch block of CPU and stuff it in our computers. Yes, I know it will get hot. Yes, I know it'll suck down juice like an arc welder. I'm okay with that. I've got solar and wind. I can cool that down - there are things to do that with.
Seriously, am I the only one that envisions a 5^3" chunk of CPU and all the glorious things I could do with it? Coupled with stacks of those NVRAM critters, piped right next to it, and crammed into a tower that's not much larger than the standard tower we have today. Hell, back home in Maine, I've got two racks that aren't even full. I'd cram it in there. No latency to deal with from distributing. Just miles of compute cycles as far as the eye can see.
Sure, make it a rich-man's toy. I'd still think about buying it. Something like 10,240 cores or whatnot. (Ha! Can you imagine what Oracle would cost on that?) Only, make it so that it's something I can reasonably buy and use a desktop OS on it. Hell, I'd switch to OS X or Windows if they were the only OSes to run on it. I still see my CPU peg 100% - and I can bust up to 4.2 GHz - in my laptop. (Actually, I guess I can OC my CPU and get up to about 5 GHz.) I don't run VMs locally that often, so I don't really run out of RAM.
But I still peg the CPU - frequently. It's almost like we're back at the CPU being the bottleneck again. Just a 5x5x5" cube of transistors. Might want to spread 'em out a little bit - I guess there's some potential for shorts and "leaks." Still... Just a big ol' stack of 'em plugged into a motherboard, it'd probably have to be a horizontally mounted board so that the weight doesn't yank it out of the socket. So we might be talking something akin to the old desktops that were flat - what the hell was the name of that style again? Meh, I forget... I don't think I've even seen any of those in the wild for a long time. I used to stuff my monitor on top of it even though that was probably a bad idea.
Maybe it'd be a little bigger. I'm okay with that. I'm sure as hell not gonna pay supercomputer prices for it or one-off prices for it. I'm absolutely positive that I'm not the only one who'd be willing to buy something like that. Sure, it might cost as much as a fairly decent family sedan or something but I'd never have to upgrade again. Ever... Well, until they became common and then they started to assume we all have that many resources and start making everything bigger so that they can then consume those resources. (I never did figure that one out. My hardware's much faster than it used to be. Things seem to take about the same amount of time in many areas.)
Hmm... There's something to that. I had scads of RAM (maxed out on 32 bit systems) and then they decided everyone had that. My computer was no longer speedy. I had broadband when everyone else had dial-up. Then they started making web pages that are 2 - 5 MB each and load things from across the globe. Fortunately, I can avoid some of that. We buy more resources and they just find a way to take them all back from us. Then they assume everyone's got it. I can't imagine the web today if you have dial-up. Oh wow, that'd just suck. I'd so use Lynx or elinks and block everything at the firewall with more attention paid to keeping it up to date. Actually, I'd move.
It's reached the point where I even get gobs of RAM for my laptop.
At any rate, I can't be the only one who'd like to see a giant-ass CPU in a desktop system. Just a huge chunk of nearly infinite cores and a compiler switch to make sure it uses 'em all. Hell, make me an extra large one with two of 'em in there. 20480 cores ought to be enough for the rest of my life. Hell, if one fizzles out, design it so that it routes around it. And no, not for HPC-type things but for a desktop. I'd never have to update again. I just gotta figure out how to compile for dual-CPU with a total of 20480 cores. There's a make switch for that somewhere. *nods* There's gotta be. Well, there should be.
Boston's pretty welcoming. You've just got to understand that "Fuck you, ya fuckin' faggot!" is how they greet everyone, it's even what they say to the priest as they're leaving Sunday mass. It's a term of endearment in Boston. "You fuckin' fag townie. Fuck you and your fuckin' mother you fucking cheap ass whore. That was an excellent service Father and yes, I'll be here next Sunday and I'll tell my mother you said hello." To which, the kindly priest responds, "Well fuck you too, ya fucking cock-sucka."
Stylistically, it reminded me of the MIT alumni logo. I use that as my avatar sometimes. It's not that I'm overly proud to be alumni, it's that I'm not very creative.
Yup. I really don't much care what the subject of the article is. It's not like we read it or were even really talking about it. There are threads and sub-threads and meta comments galore. I read Slashdot for the comments - which are generally pretty good. If anyone thinks that quality of comments has gone downhill, I suggest you take a little while to browse the archives. We were never "good." We've always just been pretty good.
A good example is to trace back VMWare (through the search) to the first article where they announced it. Read the comments in that. No Slashdot, you were never good. Not even close. Interesting? Yes. Good? No, not really. "That will never catch on." "For that price, I'll just dual boot." "That's impossible, no way you can run Windows 95 and have another OS on top of it, the file system won't allow it!" Those sorts of comments, they amuse me. I've dug the link out a dozen times but it's easy to find. Just search and keep going back in the pages by changing the number in the URL. You'll find it. I think it's technically second to oldest for the "best" of them.
Shit, I was an MVP award winner with Microsoft for about a half-dozen years. This was ages ago but they were VERY anal retentive about what logo could be used, where it was to be used, and how you used it and presented it - you signed both an agreement to do so (or you didn't get the award) and an NDA to not discuss the rules. I am, kind of obviously, no longer receiving that award every year. I haven't participated in the program since about 2006.
Ah well... They did give us an insanely awesome version of MSDN but I just stopped answering all the questions, gave the site away, and bought my own MSDN subscription. Then I switched to using Linux exclusively. It made sense to do so. I'd switched from Unix to Windows and had kept a partition with Linux on it around since the 90s. It's good to switch things up once in a while. These days, I'm kind of lost when I sit in front of a Windows computer. I'd mostly stuck with Vista at the end but I used 7 for a while. I've only touched 10 once and that was confusing and everything seemed out of place. It took me a minute to remember "MSCONFIG." and then to remember GPEDIT even existed.
No, it's not sponsored content. Whipslash/Logan posted above your post but after you posted. I don't think they do a whole lot of sponsored content here. At least not that I've noticed - though I think Dice did some. I'm not sure why everyone seems to jump to that conclusion. So, if you don't mind entertaining me, why is it that you leaped to that conclusion? It's not like there's a recent history of sponsored content. The new overlords are pretty damned open and, seemingly, honest. You can just ask 'em if you want.
It's not going to make me buy it but I don't hate it. I'm not normally a fan of the minimalist craze and I'm not a product/brand zealot so I don't really care what logo is on what, as long as it's not gaudy looking or chintzy looking. This isn't a bad logo or anything. I've seen much, much worse. It doesn't scream "copied from another company and a fad" to me. It's almost elegant, it reminds me a bit of ballerinas.
Yeah, that last joint was probably one too many. Still, it's not an abomination. I'm guessing (I've only made it this far) there's at least one person outraged about it. If not here than one of the many other sites is bound to have some fan screaming angrily at clouds. It usually happens when people experience change, someone's bound to hate it. Then again, there are probably a few people for whom this is the best thing ever and are now hell bent on getting one - just for the logo. As it's only on their higher end products, they'll be able to tie their identity to yet another brand. Yay?
I suppose they'll be forced to like it, even if it's junk, as affirmation is a strong desire in some folks. Meh, it generated some buzz. That means the HP PR folks did their job well and the design team appears to have not done too poorly. We've seen how many logos come and go over the years? Someone above mentioned Apple but they've changed a lot too. Windows? That's changed a number of times. Opera, my browser of choice, changed recently. That actually didn't bug me but they also changed the text "Opera" (on the button) to "Menu." That actually was off for me. It's not easy to explain but I didn't hate it and I know it's a trivial thing but it's like I had to relearn where the button was. I've since figured out that I can (I think) change it back by setting a flag. I'd do that but then I'd be confused again.;-) I'm acclimated to it now. It was visually distracting and such a trivial thing but I noticed it immediately and it bugged me for a few days before I adjusted.
I want to say that even Slashdot's changed their logo a couple of times. I seem to recall that the logo was a bit different at one point and that the faveicon.ico was different. I'm guessing that, if they did, there were some unhappy folks. Seems to happen with most any change but I don't recollect any outrage. I think maybe the beta was enough to make me repress a few memories. *nods*
Compared to these laptops, mine isn't very thin and it doesn't really look all that fancy - which is a bonus. It's a bit heavy but lighter than it looks like - even with two drives in it. I'm pretty happy with it but it's a "mobile workstation" and not a "laptop." I bought the Titan X4K earlier this year and have been pretty happy with the product. I imagine it's more than what most folks want to pay (I decked it out, including the extras - sans OS, of course) but I think it's worth it.
I am not affiliated. I'm just really happy with it. The price isn't even really all that bad when you consider what you're getting. You don't have to go all out, there are less expensive options.
But, this is the third or fourth one from this company now and I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to buy a laptop from one of the bigger companies ever again. The savings aren't much and I really don't mind spending the extra. The money seems to stay a little closer to home this way. You might be on to something about evil coming with size. But, if it's going to be for myself then I'm probably never going to buy a major brand laptop again. I haven't bought a branded desktop in a long time. I just get white-boxes that are interesting on NewEgg. I then put what I want in 'em though I don't do whole builds any more - I'm too old for that shit.;-)
At your link, my translator turns "Helvítis Fokking Fokk!" into "Fucking Hell Jib!" The first two words, I've got. But, what's jib in this context? Well, other than a nautical term? It is, IIRC, a type of sail. I guess that could be a throwback to the days of longboats. I dunno... But, at any rate, I tried the mighty Google and it's not being all that helpful.
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> Perhaps they fear us "peasants" might revolt.
If that were the case, they'd stop. Unfortunately, we're afraid of our government. It should be the other way around.
If they thought we'd revolt, they'd stop trying to take our liberties away. A good government has a healthy respect, which is fear, the citizenry. I want my government to know they have limits and that bad things will happen if they cross the line. I want my government to remember that we're armed and how hard it is to deal with an insurgency. I want my government to know that if the country ends up in a civil war that they'll be the first in front of the wall or at the gallows.
When the government has no fear of repercussions for their misdeeds, you get tyranny.
Yup. You should even have aptitude on your Windows box. You can apt-get install foo and run with it. I don't know how far they've come and I'm not going to go install Windows to find out but it's kind of amazing, isn't it? If I understand, it's getting the Ubuntu mini and you get that for starters. I almost want to install Windows in a VM to check it out but I'm afraid the recursion would collapse the universe or rip a whole in the time/space continuum.
I'm thinking, install Windows in a VM... Install Wine... Use Wine in Windows to run Windows apps. We could go squirrels all the way down if we install VirtualBox. Hell, I can get VMWare installed from the terminal without a problem. I won't even have to much about with VirtualBox though I'm not sure my VMWare license allows that sort of thing.
On a more serious note, it does sound interesting. As we move closer to the reality of SotC desktops, we move closer towards the world I envisioned years ago. Where it matters naught the OS but that you've space, RAM, and CPU cycles. Unfortunately, by the time it gets here, it will be nothing but fart apps and bots talking to each other.
*sighs* The world's changing and the dinosaurs need to go extinct on their own, lest they come hunting us.
Yes, yes I have read all the comments down to here. Funny, I never knew bash was so terrible. Does that mean I'm gonna have to change my evil ways or am I still allowed to use it? How about my own custom alias file, is that a relic of bygone years or can I keep it? 'Cause I really don't want to learn Python yet. No, I do not. I sort of plan on learning it - and even got some materials to do so. But I'd like to do it on my own terms and not have to give up the old ways quite so quickly.
Yes, yes I do have a terminal (terminator) window open on boot. Hell, even when I use(d) Windows, I like a command prompt window open.
Oddly, it's because I type pretty quickly and don't need to move my hands to the mouse. I just use the keyboard for a lot of things - including much of my web navigation. Maybe that's why I just can't get into the tablet format? I keep trying but no luck so far. Ah well... I'm going to go lay and egg somewhere creative and then climb into a tar pit.
And now you know why I write novellas.
Actually, this might just be my shortest post, ever.
For starters, don't be stupid and read your fucking email in plain text.
Don't take it personal... I've been giving that same lecture since about 1998. Stop reading the shit in HTML format. There are not that many rose graphics as backgrounds that are worth the risk. Plain text folks... Simple HTML works but, for the love of fuck, open a browser and paste in the copied address before visiting.
Know what the damned button does before you fucking click it!
Err... Yeah... Sorry, like I said, since about 1998... I'm kind of tired of telling people how to practice safe hex. They don't listen.
The outskirts of Winston-Salem are my favorite areas w/regards to NC. Lovely place, good people. I spent quite a while there, it's where our home office was. Well, I guess the office is still there - I just no longer own it. It does get a bit chilly there (for some people) but I retired to Maine so it's not like cold bothers me - but, I did spend the winter in Florida this year. I'm getting ready to go home again. Florida's getting too warm.
Here's an idea... Stop buying things that rely on the cloud.
Let me first state that yes, I agree, this sucks and is probably really close to the line of a civil offense - there's certainly merits for a civil case here but that's nothing worth discussing at the moment. It sucks, it really does.
Then, I have to ask, do you own one of these? From the looks of it, you do. This is what makes me curious...
"... that's what pisses me off about the IoT things I have ..."
Umm... Why did you buy something that pisses you off? More importantly, why did you keep it instead of sending it back? Did you have any reason to think that this was going to work out well, when you bought things that pissed you off?
All I can picture is, "I don't like that. I don't like that one bit. It really pisses me off - to no end, too. I tell you Myrtle, this pisses me right off. I'm going to buy six and do you have another case of them in the back? Boy am I going to be pissed off now."
I... I don't get it. I really don't.
Sure but then you're ineligible to receive all the services your property taxes pay for. And no, don't pretend you'd still be fine. You're not fooling anyone. Hell, you probably don't even own any property.
Didn't you get the memo? We're Libertarians. We don't like taxes, government, or civilization. Oh, and we put the rights of the business ahead of the rights of the individual. I've been hearing people tell me that's what I believe for a while now. The funny thing is, I was with the party when they were first getting going - way back in the 1970s. Well, they'd been around a bit before that but things started to get a bit formal then.
And yet, I've never once minded paying my taxes. I don't even complain about my taxes.
What's funny is they say go to Somalia. I've been. They're not suffering from a lack of government. No, they've got more government than the EU and the USA combined. They're governed left, right, and center. It's no less a government when it's a war lord. It's just not an officially recognized government - it's still a government and they've got a whole bunch of 'em. Hell, they've got paperwork and bureaucracy too.
Really, the misconception is kind of silly. It's like they don't actually notice the whole "liberty" part of the word. You don't get a whole lot of liberties in an anarchy, not really. To be fair, we sure do have a whole bunch of idiots who self-identify as Libertarians. I can't say that I really blame people for being confused. It's not like we're about to take the microphone from them, so they get to shout the loudest. I think the vast majority of Libertarians think that Ayn Rand was an idiot and know that Rand Paul is not a Libertarian. We're just not as vocal as the others. We probably should be, someone needs to counteract them. I keep starting and stopping - the tide's just a bit too strong to deal with on my own.
I take it that you've been to Boston, then? Ramming you with their car is just an excuse so that they can stop you and have a neighborly chat. Remember, in Mass, if it happens behind the 'B-Pillar' (front doors of the car) then it didn't happen. Dents are just character, the more dents - the more character.
God, I love Boston. I could never live in the area again but I do have a place there that currently has a relative in it. It's up near Highland and Fort Ave - Beech Glen St. I've got family all over the place. I went to school up in Cambridge. I then started my company there before moving to N.C., actually.
So, assuming you're from the area, "How's a heahty fuck you for ya, ya fuckin' tally-whackin' queer?" ;-)
The accent still comes out once in a while, "What ah ya, fuckin' retahded or what, bub?"
Go here:
chrome://settings/search#pass
Manage passwords. It's at the bottom. Click that link. Tada!
I've been using Opera since the 1990s. We had to pay for it then. I've used it since, with some exceptions... From version 15 to 23, Opera sucked. At 24 they were usable again. At 28 - 29, they were good again. They're quite nice now. I keep all three versions installed (beta, dev, stable) and use them for various tasks with separated tabs that open by default, shared settings (some), and folders that are saved on the Speed Dial.
Then again...
I've got a half dozen text browsers, Firefox (a couple of versions), all the Opera, Midori, Vivaldi (three versions), Pale Moon, Dillo, and probably a few that I've forgotten. I know I've got a couple downloaded that aren't installed yet. I'm pretty browser agnostic but I always return to Opera. I keep the others and use them for varied tasks or to test things.
I'm kind of hell bent on keeping Opera, however. That's the big thing for me. I just return to it, always. The current incarnations are very good. If you're not enjoying the current versions that is because you choose not to. They work. They work fine. They're light and responsive (for a 2016 browser). They render well. You can set it up to use any Chromium/Chrome extension, and all that sort of stuff.
It's not that I care what browser you use but if you'd actively disliking Opera that's just silly. It does its job just fine. They kind of all do, these days. Well, except for the myriad text browsers I've installed but even those serve a purpose for me. Yes, yes I do go browse the 'net with elinks or lynx. Not often - but I do. Speaking of which, I've gotta recompile Dillo so that I have https support.
That's funny. I've been wondering what people mean when they say "flat" in reference to things like that. Now I know. I don't mind it but I do have one pet peeve with Vivaldi... Put the damned disable hardware acceleration button back!
It was never there - but it was in the code they got and forked. It's IN Chromium and Opera. I know, 'cause I have to tick the damned thing on two separate boxes with nVidia cards and using the free drivers. I have to! Or the MENU is BLACK and I can't see it. As is the address bar, as is the tab bar, as is random splotches around the screen.
They took out the button. It was there. It's in the same damned spot on all the other browsers based on the same code. They didn't take it out. Nope. But Vivaldi? They're like, "That might be handy, tear it out of there. That'll irk that KGIII for sure!" (Well, something like that.)
Fortunately, I'm kind of used to it. I just start it with vivildi --disable-gpu-compositing or vivaldi-snapshot --disable-gpu-blah-blah-blah... I know - 'cause that's how to get the other browsers started so that I can go in and change the menu option. I can't see it without that switch. But no... Vivaldi tore that button right out of there.
I already had the repository in my list so I just used apt (I have snapshot installed) and the thing's already expanded to over 140 MB.
*sighs*
I was cock or the walk when I had not one, but two, 40 MB drives.
> I don't think it would be wrong to say, "The house has been left unsecured."
Nor should you. That's correct usage. Just like unsecured loans.
If I get an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, I'm 58, the last person I'm calling is a doctor. I'm calling a hooker, the lady next door, maybe even a pizza delivery company - not a doctor.
I've actually been wondering and asking, for a while now, why we can't just buy like a 5 cubic inch block of CPU and stuff it in our computers. Yes, I know it will get hot. Yes, I know it'll suck down juice like an arc welder. I'm okay with that. I've got solar and wind. I can cool that down - there are things to do that with.
Seriously, am I the only one that envisions a 5^3" chunk of CPU and all the glorious things I could do with it? Coupled with stacks of those NVRAM critters, piped right next to it, and crammed into a tower that's not much larger than the standard tower we have today. Hell, back home in Maine, I've got two racks that aren't even full. I'd cram it in there. No latency to deal with from distributing. Just miles of compute cycles as far as the eye can see.
Sure, make it a rich-man's toy. I'd still think about buying it. Something like 10,240 cores or whatnot. (Ha! Can you imagine what Oracle would cost on that?) Only, make it so that it's something I can reasonably buy and use a desktop OS on it. Hell, I'd switch to OS X or Windows if they were the only OSes to run on it. I still see my CPU peg 100% - and I can bust up to 4.2 GHz - in my laptop. (Actually, I guess I can OC my CPU and get up to about 5 GHz.) I don't run VMs locally that often, so I don't really run out of RAM.
But I still peg the CPU - frequently. It's almost like we're back at the CPU being the bottleneck again. Just a 5x5x5" cube of transistors. Might want to spread 'em out a little bit - I guess there's some potential for shorts and "leaks." Still... Just a big ol' stack of 'em plugged into a motherboard, it'd probably have to be a horizontally mounted board so that the weight doesn't yank it out of the socket. So we might be talking something akin to the old desktops that were flat - what the hell was the name of that style again? Meh, I forget... I don't think I've even seen any of those in the wild for a long time. I used to stuff my monitor on top of it even though that was probably a bad idea.
Maybe it'd be a little bigger. I'm okay with that. I'm sure as hell not gonna pay supercomputer prices for it or one-off prices for it. I'm absolutely positive that I'm not the only one who'd be willing to buy something like that. Sure, it might cost as much as a fairly decent family sedan or something but I'd never have to upgrade again. Ever... Well, until they became common and then they started to assume we all have that many resources and start making everything bigger so that they can then consume those resources. (I never did figure that one out. My hardware's much faster than it used to be. Things seem to take about the same amount of time in many areas.)
Hmm... There's something to that. I had scads of RAM (maxed out on 32 bit systems) and then they decided everyone had that. My computer was no longer speedy. I had broadband when everyone else had dial-up. Then they started making web pages that are 2 - 5 MB each and load things from across the globe. Fortunately, I can avoid some of that. We buy more resources and they just find a way to take them all back from us. Then they assume everyone's got it. I can't imagine the web today if you have dial-up. Oh wow, that'd just suck. I'd so use Lynx or elinks and block everything at the firewall with more attention paid to keeping it up to date. Actually, I'd move.
It's reached the point where I even get gobs of RAM for my laptop.
At any rate, I can't be the only one who'd like to see a giant-ass CPU in a desktop system. Just a huge chunk of nearly infinite cores and a compiler switch to make sure it uses 'em all. Hell, make me an extra large one with two of 'em in there. 20480 cores ought to be enough for the rest of my life. Hell, if one fizzles out, design it so that it routes around it. And no, not for HPC-type things but for a desktop. I'd never have to update again. I just gotta figure out how to compile for dual-CPU with a total of 20480 cores. There's a make switch for that somewhere. *nods* There's gotta be. Well, there should be.
Boston's pretty welcoming. You've just got to understand that "Fuck you, ya fuckin' faggot!" is how they greet everyone, it's even what they say to the priest as they're leaving Sunday mass. It's a term of endearment in Boston. "You fuckin' fag townie. Fuck you and your fuckin' mother you fucking cheap ass whore. That was an excellent service Father and yes, I'll be here next Sunday and I'll tell my mother you said hello." To which, the kindly priest responds, "Well fuck you too, ya fucking cock-sucka."
I'm telling you, it just means they like you.
Stylistically, it reminded me of the MIT alumni logo. I use that as my avatar sometimes. It's not that I'm overly proud to be alumni, it's that I'm not very creative.
Yup. I really don't much care what the subject of the article is. It's not like we read it or were even really talking about it. There are threads and sub-threads and meta comments galore. I read Slashdot for the comments - which are generally pretty good. If anyone thinks that quality of comments has gone downhill, I suggest you take a little while to browse the archives. We were never "good." We've always just been pretty good.
A good example is to trace back VMWare (through the search) to the first article where they announced it. Read the comments in that. No Slashdot, you were never good. Not even close. Interesting? Yes. Good? No, not really. "That will never catch on." "For that price, I'll just dual boot." "That's impossible, no way you can run Windows 95 and have another OS on top of it, the file system won't allow it!" Those sorts of comments, they amuse me. I've dug the link out a dozen times but it's easy to find. Just search and keep going back in the pages by changing the number in the URL. You'll find it. I think it's technically second to oldest for the "best" of them.
Shit, I was an MVP award winner with Microsoft for about a half-dozen years. This was ages ago but they were VERY anal retentive about what logo could be used, where it was to be used, and how you used it and presented it - you signed both an agreement to do so (or you didn't get the award) and an NDA to not discuss the rules. I am, kind of obviously, no longer receiving that award every year. I haven't participated in the program since about 2006.
Ah well... They did give us an insanely awesome version of MSDN but I just stopped answering all the questions, gave the site away, and bought my own MSDN subscription. Then I switched to using Linux exclusively. It made sense to do so. I'd switched from Unix to Windows and had kept a partition with Linux on it around since the 90s. It's good to switch things up once in a while. These days, I'm kind of lost when I sit in front of a Windows computer. I'd mostly stuck with Vista at the end but I used 7 for a while. I've only touched 10 once and that was confusing and everything seemed out of place. It took me a minute to remember "MSCONFIG." and then to remember GPEDIT even existed.
No, it's not sponsored content. Whipslash/Logan posted above your post but after you posted. I don't think they do a whole lot of sponsored content here. At least not that I've noticed - though I think Dice did some. I'm not sure why everyone seems to jump to that conclusion. So, if you don't mind entertaining me, why is it that you leaped to that conclusion? It's not like there's a recent history of sponsored content. The new overlords are pretty damned open and, seemingly, honest. You can just ask 'em if you want.
It's not going to make me buy it but I don't hate it. I'm not normally a fan of the minimalist craze and I'm not a product/brand zealot so I don't really care what logo is on what, as long as it's not gaudy looking or chintzy looking. This isn't a bad logo or anything. I've seen much, much worse. It doesn't scream "copied from another company and a fad" to me. It's almost elegant, it reminds me a bit of ballerinas.
Yeah, that last joint was probably one too many. Still, it's not an abomination. I'm guessing (I've only made it this far) there's at least one person outraged about it. If not here than one of the many other sites is bound to have some fan screaming angrily at clouds. It usually happens when people experience change, someone's bound to hate it. Then again, there are probably a few people for whom this is the best thing ever and are now hell bent on getting one - just for the logo. As it's only on their higher end products, they'll be able to tie their identity to yet another brand. Yay?
I suppose they'll be forced to like it, even if it's junk, as affirmation is a strong desire in some folks. Meh, it generated some buzz. That means the HP PR folks did their job well and the design team appears to have not done too poorly. We've seen how many logos come and go over the years? Someone above mentioned Apple but they've changed a lot too. Windows? That's changed a number of times. Opera, my browser of choice, changed recently. That actually didn't bug me but they also changed the text "Opera" (on the button) to "Menu." That actually was off for me. It's not easy to explain but I didn't hate it and I know it's a trivial thing but it's like I had to relearn where the button was. I've since figured out that I can (I think) change it back by setting a flag. I'd do that but then I'd be confused again. ;-) I'm acclimated to it now. It was visually distracting and such a trivial thing but I noticed it immediately and it bugged me for a few days before I adjusted.
I want to say that even Slashdot's changed their logo a couple of times. I seem to recall that the logo was a bit different at one point and that the faveicon.ico was different. I'm guessing that, if they did, there were some unhappy folks. Seems to happen with most any change but I don't recollect any outrage. I think maybe the beta was enough to make me repress a few memories. *nods*
Compared to these laptops, mine isn't very thin and it doesn't really look all that fancy - which is a bonus. It's a bit heavy but lighter than it looks like - even with two drives in it. I'm pretty happy with it but it's a "mobile workstation" and not a "laptop." I bought the Titan X4K earlier this year and have been pretty happy with the product. I imagine it's more than what most folks want to pay (I decked it out, including the extras - sans OS, of course) but I think it's worth it.
I am not affiliated. I'm just really happy with it. The price isn't even really all that bad when you consider what you're getting. You don't have to go all out, there are less expensive options.
But, this is the third or fourth one from this company now and I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to buy a laptop from one of the bigger companies ever again. The savings aren't much and I really don't mind spending the extra. The money seems to stay a little closer to home this way. You might be on to something about evil coming with size. But, if it's going to be for myself then I'm probably never going to buy a major brand laptop again. I haven't bought a branded desktop in a long time. I just get white-boxes that are interesting on NewEgg. I then put what I want in 'em though I don't do whole builds any more - I'm too old for that shit. ;-)
Well, too lazy/busy.
At your link, my translator turns "Helvítis Fokking Fokk!" into "Fucking Hell Jib!" The first two words, I've got. But, what's jib in this context? Well, other than a nautical term? It is, IIRC, a type of sail. I guess that could be a throwback to the days of longboats. I dunno... But, at any rate, I tried the mighty Google and it's not being all that helpful.