I keep wondering how long MasterCard is going to let me keep a non emv card. I was sure when I requested a replacement back in December that the new one would have a chip but somehow Lucked out still no emv and the cards good thru 2020.
I was in walmart late last year and they said it didn't work. Yet its worked there every time since so something was wrong with their terminal. last time I was in there they had a couple cc machines jammed saying please remove card when none was inserted plus that annoying noise they make when you don't take your card out of the machine quickly enough.
Someday you will own a rig with 1tb of ram and wonder how you ever got by with less. I think 4GB is a good minimum standard as less will not run windows updates by itself on any vista/7/8/10 system. I'm not going for optimal or recommended. But if I were recommending id recommend you max your system out with the max your motherboard allows anything new at this point supporting less than 16GB should be avoided.
Really? When was the last time system requirements was upped? Oh yeah that was windows 7 it required twice the amount of ram as vista I haven't heard any complaints about 7s minimum system requirements being too high ive also never heard anyone refer to it as slow as hell also iirc upgrades are a very small part of windows sales so maintaining minimum specs that were the minimum specs 5 years ago really shouldn't be that much of a priority.
Why would anyone even care about your Skype conversations? Is this like for black mail purposes or do people really discuss state secrets using Skype?
Just to note I haven't used Skype since 2007. So maybe it has a trade state secret function now but when I used it all it could do was make voice and video calls also sms for a extra fee. But that's been almost 10 years ago now.
As for why I haven't used it since 2007? My cell phone has unlimited nationwide calling/sms/mms.
That might be the fix I need but it seems to have to do with the scanning for updates. My issue was when it stated installing the second set of 124+ updates on a fresh windows install it would run through all available memory on any system with less than 4GB and page out to disk. That caused it to take about 1-2 days to finish installing instead of 1-3 hours.
I remember one in particular that I started one around noon and when I got back in the next morning it was only on update 128 of 144. Wasn't finished till shortly after 4pm.
That's a very good question. The program has been in development since at least as far back as the windows 95 days the copyright date puts it back in 1986. Well before embedded versions of windows were available.
Now why he chose to make the program run on windows I can only guess was because of there widespread use and the relative ease of finding parts. Maybe he was planning on us using software other than his own?
I'm sure it would run fine on the embedded version of xp or 7.
My point was intended to be the os has the job of connecting everything together and providing a stable base to run software on. You want themes? Sure there's an a API for that but I don't feel its nessisary to include a bunch of fluff to make it look pretty standard.
Related Firefox now looks flashy like Chrome and they are removing themes support so it stays that way.
Imho it should start out looking like sea monkey and stay that way unless you theme it.
Most oem systems sold are sold with slightly better than the minimum specs. Microsoft did at least partly take this into account with windows vista by disabling the aero theme and certain special effects if certain requirements weren't met. The requirements were still too low but I suppose its the thought that counts.
No one seems to do quality control anymore. And I've wandered off from the question again.
Well they don't look like old systems they are getting new equipment from somewhere. I can't imagine its a special order but then again walmart is big enough that it could build its own equipment in house if it wanted to. But they aren't the only ones most pos (point of sale not the other one though they are probbably that too) systems are built in the style of the old IBM pos systems that were made years ago.
The self checkout systems are probably the most modern systems used in the store. Haven't had to use one of those yet but I did get to complain the other night when all the checkers just so happened to be on break at the same time.
Walmart screwed up the new chip card readers. You put the card in and the reader pops off the stand you'd have thought someone would have checked that before they bought a few thousand of them.
Unless they have standardised this while I wasn't paying attention the system requirements for windows 7/8/10 call for a 1GHz processor.
And afaik how many GHz the processor had has been a poor indicator of performance for a very long time now and is pretty much only useful when comparing processors of the same product line. A new unit of measure needs to be used for the sytem requirements. But there are just so many things that play into processor performance I'm not sure what you would use.
They are giving away windows 10 for the first year free thats enough admission for me although I still wish they had actually put the start menu back like it belongs last I checked the start menu on win 10 still looks like metro and has no submenus.
Yeah windows 8 was pretty great for touch screen or tablet it would have been nicer if they had actually gotten all the settings in the new ui instead of making you switch back and forth to change your power settings. But they forgot one very Important thing when designing it and then made a very poor choice when selling it.
They assumed everyone would have a touch screen computer. Most didn't and still don't. Then they decided to sell a system dependent on you having a touchscreen without making it a system requirement. And what did the oems do? Race to the bottom no touch screen, minimum specs. Sell sell sell. And then people bought these awful w8 systems without touch screens because they were about $100 cheaper that way. Personally I think if msft had just went ahead and made it a system requirement the economies of scale would kick in and they would have only cost $20 more if that much and the user experience would have been decent.
I want a UI that looks like it was ripped out of windows nt. and is light weight enough to handle 10 file windows in under 100MB of ram.
I want my os to run my programs and work with my existing equipment.
I don't however have any need for the os to have pretty graphics and flashy transitions.
At work our machines run one program only the mouse is only used twice a day once to start the program and once to shut the computer down at the end of the day. The program runs full screen so all of the terminals look identical regardless of the underlying os.
If we actually closed at the same time each day with minimal scripting we could eliminate the mouse entirely.
If your at home and you play a game most of those run full screen too so all the ui needs to be is easy to use, stable and lightweight.
Last I looked at ubuntu they had switched to this flashy graphic designed for touch screen gnome ui. I don't feel that's better than win 7. Gnome didn't used to look flashy that was KDE's thing but now they both look flashy what happened?
Keep in mind walmart largest retailer in the country is still today using IBM checkout systems. Why? because K.I.S.S
Microsoft lying about minimum requirements. The question is why? It doesn't really cost msft anything to change the arbitrary requirements. They ought to have been upped to 4GB years ago. At the same time they could have written the system in such a way that it didn't use 2.7GB while updating.
Vista was bad for performance and the UAC was extra naggy by default they even scaled UAC back by default in windows 7+ 8/8.1 has a terrible stock ui without a touch screen (should have been a system requirement if they were going to tell everyone else to gtfo) better with classic shell. 10 is a compromise between 7 and 8 but the start menu is still screwed up.
Performance wise yes with enough resources it was fine. But the oem's never sold stock systems with "enough" for the entire time vista was on the market. The low end systems today with windows 10 still don't have the power to make vista work as intended. Plus i've never encountered a windows vista system with more than 4GB stock memory most came with just 2GB or less. Windows 7 handles it a bit better. However there is currently a bug with the windows update process and any system with less than 4GB of memory will page out to disk while trying to install the second set of 124 updates. Msft hasn't admitted to that yet either though.
Imho no one anywhere should even have the option to buy a new windows system with less than 4GB.
Don't people realise that if a business accepts a credit card the card company gets somewhere around 2% this is a cost to the business itself unlike sales tax. So say an item costs $100 that the business would only receive $98 after fees.
Here it would go charge to customer item $100 tax 10% $10 total $110
Received by business paid in Cash $100 paid with cc 2% $98
Now tell me again how it's fair to pay people for their money? It really is a convenience charge shouldn't the customer be paying for use of the card?
Well if on network usage was free id just set up a point to point connection with 2 aircards to the business line at work as paying for a second line would still be way cheaper than the overages.
Never heard of him before. Story was a pretty good read though. ****This post contains spoilers****
I thought Manna was a bit on the extreme side on both outcomes. In order of whaaa?
First 4GC, Inc. ok There are only 1 billion share in existence to start then the rest of Australia joined the company pop of au is only say 25 mil. While it mentioned kids throughout it did not mention how they were allocated a share of the resources of the company surprising as in the first part it mentioned they think the robots are putting contraceptives in the water so emphasis was placed on it but nothing was said it does mention that they still have a finite amount of resources implying a stable population would be needed less each person's share of resources shrink into nothing 1/1000th of an apple is a pretty small piece. Of course you have the same problem with the capitalist system If you have lots of people to employ wages are poor. but with a low population things work much better and wages are better because there is actually competition among employers to get the few people available. It was strange to see the article a few weeks ago about falling population. Kind of like the 1995 sliders episode Luck of the Draw.
Second the insane loss of privacy for safety like the 2004 movie The Final Cut or the episode The Entire History of You from the 2011 series Black Mirror. Interlocks between your brain and the rest of your body that aren't fully under your control and your memories can be used against you in court as can everyone else's, you are tracked everywhere you go for safety, If anyone happens to see you walking outside it is logged and indexed to keep track of who knows your route. It is important to note that in both outcomes society loses all privacy in favor of safety. The story stopped just short of re-educating people for thought crimes.
Third The story talks about job blacklisting In the US we currently have a legal system that can make you a felon for a variety of reasons some rather frivolous (seriously http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... ) which is shorter than saying you will likely never be able to get a job that pays more than minimum wage. I still don't understand the reason behind it if they didn't think they were rehabilitated why would they let them out? and not being able to get a job is awful on the recidivism rates. In the US we seem to have a large misunderstanding of what jails are for is it rehabilitation or punishment? We can't seem to decide and have ended up with a bastardised system that does neither well.
Fourth the guy has had a share in the company for years and he's just now being told about it yet they still have mail it was mentioned in chapter 7.
Sixth the second part seems similar to the 2009 movie Surrogates where a large part of the population chooses to not interact in person never leaving their house.
Seventh there is a open source system in place with robots capable of completely replacing the human work force and somehow the US doesn't have 100% unemployment. whaaaat?
Eighth the terrafoam buildings aren't that far from what we have today absent the ability to leave and being crime free. Most aren't guaranteed the basics of food water shelter under the the current system.
Ninth how do they pay for things when interacting with other countries?
Both sections read like a work of satire hopefully that's intended. As neither future looked very bright to me.
Yeah as of now I have POTS with phone > DSL modem > router. They are trying to get me to switch to POTS no phone > DSL modem with voip bridged back to pots line > router
As of now I can lose phone without losing DSL and I can lose DSL without losing my phone.
So then If my dsl goes down I lose both internet and phone.
They've been advertising it as fiber optic phone service.
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I don't like the idea of someone trying to fix my HDD with a HAMR.
Supposedly they are pretty reliable now. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
I still don't trust them. What they are supposed to do is fail in read only mode but what they often do is fail altogether.
And afaik most data recovery services do not yet have the ability to process SSDs
But they are faster and great in laptops because overall they are much more resistant to damage from drops.
Drive the mars rover. Thats about like desert bus but slower right?
I keep wondering how long MasterCard is going to let me keep a non emv card. I was sure when I requested a replacement back in December that the new one would have a chip but somehow Lucked out still no emv and the cards good thru 2020.
I was in walmart late last year and they said it didn't work. Yet its worked there every time since so something was wrong with their terminal. last time I was in there they had a couple cc machines jammed saying please remove card when none was inserted plus that annoying noise they make when you don't take your card out of the machine quickly enough.
Careful now we wouldn't want a repeat of the moon landing now would we?
Someday you will own a rig with 1tb of ram and wonder how you ever got by with less.
I think 4GB is a good minimum standard as less will not run windows updates by itself on any vista/7/8/10 system.
I'm not going for optimal or recommended. But if I were recommending id recommend you max your system out with the max your motherboard allows anything new at this point supporting less than 16GB should be avoided.
Really? When was the last time system requirements was upped? Oh yeah that was windows 7 it required twice the amount of ram as vista I haven't heard any complaints about 7s minimum system requirements being too high ive also never heard anyone refer to it as slow as hell also iirc upgrades are a very small part of windows sales so maintaining minimum specs that were the minimum specs 5 years ago really shouldn't be that much of a priority.
Why would anyone even care about your Skype conversations? Is this like for black mail purposes or do people really discuss state secrets using Skype?
Just to note I haven't used Skype since 2007. So maybe it has a trade state secret function now but when I used it all it could do was make voice and video calls also sms for a extra fee. But that's been almost 10 years ago now.
As for why I haven't used it since 2007? My cell phone has unlimited nationwide calling/sms/mms.
That might be the fix I need but it seems to have to do with the scanning for updates. My issue was when it stated installing the second set of 124+ updates on a fresh windows install it would run through all available memory on any system with less than 4GB and page out to disk. That caused it to take about 1-2 days to finish installing instead of 1-3 hours.
I remember one in particular that I started one around noon and when I got back in the next morning it was only on update 128 of 144. Wasn't finished till shortly after 4pm.
Pita they are.
That's a very good question. The program has been in development since at least as far back as the windows 95 days the copyright date puts it back in 1986. Well before embedded versions of windows were available.
Now why he chose to make the program run on windows I can only guess was because of there widespread use and the relative ease of finding parts. Maybe he was planning on us using software other than his own?
I'm sure it would run fine on the embedded version of xp or 7.
My point was intended to be the os has the job of connecting everything together and providing a stable base to run software on. You want themes? Sure there's an a API for that but I don't feel its nessisary to include a bunch of fluff to make it look pretty standard.
Related Firefox now looks flashy like Chrome and they are removing themes support so it stays that way.
Imho it should start out looking like sea monkey and stay that way unless you theme it.
Most oem systems sold are sold with slightly better than the minimum specs. Microsoft did at least partly take this into account with windows vista by disabling the aero theme and certain special effects if certain requirements weren't met. The requirements were still too low but I suppose its the thought that counts.
No one seems to do quality control anymore.
And I've wandered off from the question again.
Well they don't look like old systems they are getting new equipment from somewhere. I can't imagine its a special order but then again walmart is big enough that it could build its own equipment in house if it wanted to.
But they aren't the only ones most pos (point of sale not the other one though they are probbably that too) systems are built in the style of the old IBM pos systems that were made years ago.
The self checkout systems are probably the most modern systems used in the store. Haven't had to use one of those yet but I did get to complain the other night when all the checkers just so happened to be on break at the same time.
Walmart screwed up the new chip card readers. You put the card in and the reader pops off the stand you'd have thought someone would have checked that before they bought a few thousand of them.
Unless they have standardised this while I wasn't paying attention the system requirements for windows 7/8/10 call for a 1GHz processor.
And afaik how many GHz the processor had has been a poor indicator of performance for a very long time now and is pretty much only useful when comparing processors of the same product line. A new unit of measure needs to be used for the sytem requirements. But there are just so many things that play into processor performance I'm not sure what you would use.
They are giving away windows 10 for the first year free thats enough admission for me although I still wish they had actually put the start menu back like it belongs last I checked the start menu on win 10 still looks like metro and has no submenus.
Yeah windows 8 was pretty great for touch screen or tablet it would have been nicer if they had actually gotten all the settings in the new ui instead of making you switch back and forth to change your power settings. But they forgot one very Important thing when designing it and then made a very poor choice when selling it.
They assumed everyone would have a touch screen computer. Most didn't and still don't. Then they decided to sell a system dependent on you having a touchscreen without making it a system requirement. And what did the oems do? Race to the bottom no touch screen, minimum specs. Sell sell sell. And then people bought these awful w8 systems without touch screens because they were about $100 cheaper that way. Personally I think if msft had just went ahead and made it a system requirement the economies of scale would kick in and they would have only cost $20 more if that much and the user experience would have been decent.
Not in my experience but as ive said there is a still unfixed bug causing windows update to use 2.7GB+ of ram...
I want a UI that looks like it was ripped out of windows nt.
and is light weight enough to handle 10 file windows in under 100MB of ram.
I want my os to run my programs and work with my existing equipment.
I don't however have any need for the os to have pretty graphics and flashy transitions.
At work our machines run one program only the mouse is only used twice a day once to start the program and once to shut the computer down at the end of the day.
The program runs full screen so all of the terminals look identical regardless of the underlying os.
If we actually closed at the same time each day with minimal scripting we could eliminate the mouse entirely.
If your at home and you play a game most of those run full screen too so all the ui needs to be is easy to use, stable and lightweight.
Last I looked at ubuntu they had switched to this flashy graphic designed for touch screen gnome ui.
I don't feel that's better than win 7. Gnome didn't used to look flashy that was KDE's thing but now they both look flashy what happened?
Keep in mind walmart largest retailer in the country is still today using IBM checkout systems. Why? because K.I.S.S
I've got a few old camera systems that only support an activex plugin. Afaik there is no way to get active-x plugins in browsers other than ie.
And the new camera system purchased last year to replace it? it has both a active-x and a npapi plugin.
And then? Chrome promptly dropped support for npapi plugins so I'm back to being stuck with ie again........
That's 2 million american'ts without access to broadband..or a cheaper dialup isp.
Is winamp still around?
Microsoft lying about minimum requirements.
The question is why?
It doesn't really cost msft anything to change the arbitrary requirements. They ought to have been upped to 4GB years ago.
At the same time they could have written the system in such a way that it didn't use 2.7GB while updating.
Vista was bad for performance and the UAC was extra naggy by default they even scaled UAC back by default in windows 7+
8/8.1 has a terrible stock ui without a touch screen (should have been a system requirement if they were going to tell everyone else to gtfo) better with classic shell.
10 is a compromise between 7 and 8 but the start menu is still screwed up.
Performance wise yes with enough resources it was fine. But the oem's never sold stock systems with "enough" for the entire time vista was on the market.
The low end systems today with windows 10 still don't have the power to make vista work as intended.
Plus i've never encountered a windows vista system with more than 4GB stock memory most came with just 2GB or less.
Windows 7 handles it a bit better. However there is currently a bug with the windows update process and any system with less than 4GB of memory will page out to disk while trying to install the second set of 124 updates. Msft hasn't admitted to that yet either though.
Imho no one anywhere should even have the option to buy a new windows system with less than 4GB.
No I was surprised that they were able to stay in business after the launch of vista and the windows 8 disaster.
Don't people realise that if a business accepts a credit card the card company gets somewhere around 2% this is a cost to the business itself unlike sales tax. So say an item costs $100
that the business would only receive $98 after fees.
Here it would go
charge to customer
item $100
tax 10% $10
total $110
Received by business
paid in Cash $100
paid with cc 2% $98
Now tell me again how it's fair to pay people for their money? It really is a convenience charge shouldn't the customer be paying for use of the card?
Well if on network usage was free id just set up a point to point connection with 2 aircards to the business line at work as paying for a second line would still be way cheaper than the overages.
Never heard of him before.
Story was a pretty good read though.
****This post contains spoilers****
I thought Manna was a bit on the extreme side on both outcomes.
In order of whaaa?
First 4GC, Inc. ok There are only 1 billion share in existence to start then the rest of Australia joined the company pop of au is only say 25 mil. While it mentioned kids throughout it did not mention how they were allocated a share of the resources of the company surprising as in the first part it mentioned they think the robots are putting contraceptives in the water so emphasis was placed on it but nothing was said it does mention that they still have a finite amount of resources implying a stable population would be needed less each person's share of resources shrink into nothing 1/1000th of an apple is a pretty small piece. Of course you have the same problem with the capitalist system If you have lots of people to employ wages are poor. but with a low population things work much better and wages are better because there is actually competition among employers to get the few people available. It was strange to see the article a few weeks ago about falling population. Kind of like the 1995 sliders episode Luck of the Draw.
Second the insane loss of privacy for safety like the 2004 movie The Final Cut or the episode The Entire History of You from the 2011 series Black Mirror. Interlocks between your brain and the rest of your body that aren't fully under your control and your memories can be used against you in court as can everyone else's, you are tracked everywhere you go for safety, If anyone happens to see you walking outside it is logged and indexed to keep track of who knows your route. It is important to note that in both outcomes society loses all privacy in favor of safety. The story stopped just short of re-educating people for thought crimes.
Third The story talks about job blacklisting In the US we currently have a legal system that can make you a felon for a variety of reasons some rather frivolous (seriously http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... ) which is shorter than saying you will likely never be able to get a job that pays more than minimum wage. I still don't understand the reason behind it if they didn't think they were rehabilitated why would they let them out? and not being able to get a job is awful on the recidivism rates. In the US we seem to have a large misunderstanding of what jails are for is it rehabilitation or punishment? We can't seem to decide and have ended up with a bastardised system that does neither well.
Fourth the guy has had a share in the company for years and he's just now being told about it yet they still have mail it was mentioned in chapter 7.
Fifth Manna should have encountered the same problems as MIT. http://static.zerorobotics.mit...
Sixth the second part seems similar to the 2009 movie Surrogates where a large part of the population chooses to not interact in person never leaving their house.
Seventh there is a open source system in place with robots capable of completely replacing the human work force and somehow the US doesn't have 100% unemployment. whaaaat?
Eighth the terrafoam buildings aren't that far from what we have today absent the ability to leave and being crime free. Most aren't guaranteed the basics of food water shelter under the the current system.
Ninth how do they pay for things when interacting with other countries?
Both sections read like a work of satire hopefully that's intended. As neither future looked very bright to me.
Timothy you've mentioned this before..
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
Do they work as well as a voice recognition based phone tree?
Yeah as of now I have POTS with phone > DSL modem > router.
They are trying to get me to switch to POTS no phone > DSL modem with voip bridged back to pots line > router
As of now I can lose phone without losing DSL and I can lose DSL without losing my phone.
So then If my dsl goes down I lose both internet and phone.
They've been advertising it as fiber optic phone service.