DonGateley

Ive will be remembered as the man who succeeded (for only a while I hope) in removing graphics completely from graphic design. Flat "design" is uniformly featureless to make it easy for developers to make apps while requiring no skills in graphic design or expense on the same. Lower the bar and level the field. It's about apps, apps, apps...

Thanks. Excellent Wiki. Kudos to Christopher Wilcox.

Does this work with Visual Studio Community 2013?

Yeah, I got that on Firefox too. There was something going on in the background that interfered and after 5-10 seconds it stopped doing so for me and then acted normally. Some ill behaved script on the page I think.

Is there a good text which would make the meaning of all this clear?

Heh. For the helluvit I entered the Transcendental Meditation mantra given me 45 years ago and got something much, much more compelling than the mantra itself. I might just revisit that old fad.

OMG! Of course I entered "type something" (no quotes) and five minutes later dragged myself out of the trance it put me in. :-)

This could actually be very useful for meditation.

"High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy"

Is there a person alive that doesn't know this? The same can be said of any powerful nation's policy throughout most if not all of history. Ending the story on such a truism as if it's an exposure is lame.

When it's retail and not a crowdfunded wet dream.

Because in this neighborhood of the superimposed wave function that comprises the multiverse that didn't happen. There are also an infinite number of neighborhoods where the ability to ask that question doesn't exist because of the event.

To ask why it didn't happen in this particular neighborhood is to ask why the lack of that event is possible. In a Q.M. multiverse "why" questions get real tricky.

Yet another crowd funded wet dream.

There really is no way to ensure that unfortunately. You can only go by reputation and their own statements in that regard. The resource I linked is a good place to start an investigation. At least it weeds out those that don't even make the claim and there are many of those.

A bit more caution: if using a VPN's client application it is very important to ensure that they have a kill switch option which shuts down all internet traffic should the VPN connection drop. Many don't. Without that, your machine will continue to babble the copyrighted material in the unencrypted clear after a drop. Unless you are attending the transfer you may never know that is happening.

Alternatively, most all VPN services in addition to offering their own client app also provide URL's that you can plug into standard Windows VPN connections. Then you can use the VPNCheck application which provides a global kill switch that will stop all traffic if any Windows VPN disconnects. That's the route I choose.

"Your VPN provider's IP address is public information. A quick subpoena is all it would take to reveal your identity. Seems like a risky way to watch Game of Thrones. At least on Usenet a download is just a download."

A subpoena can only work if the VPN services keeps logs of its user's transactions. Some do and some don't. Without logs there is nothing to subpoena. When evaluating a VPN it is very important to find out whether or not they do. As of now U.S. VPN's cannot be forced to keep logs.

A well regarded resource for such evaluation is:

  https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/

A non-logging VPN with end to end encryption is absolutely required for safety using anything that transfers copyrighted material without permission. That includes both versions of Popcorn Time. Not taking this precaution is very, very expensive.

Can one move an existing name and its mailboxes to it?

What I most like about this text is that it is about the R language and not about the domain in which R has found the greatest application. I find R perfectly suitable for basic, pre-statistical signal processing for example. Far better than Matlab at a fundamental level. In fact, about anything that Matlab is good for R is better. Except of course for the evolution of the surrounding packages.

All the prior tutorials and courses I've seen presume and utilize a background in the domain of statistics and a require a fairly strong one at that. I strongly believe R should be sprung free of that encumbrance so as to find a wider audience and this is a really good effort in that direction.

I've never needed to wonder why they go but I wonder deeply at why they charge into opposing fire.

I've a particularly bad case of short term to long term drought. More than once I've been well into a book or short story before realizing I've read it before. Occasionally not until I get to the ending.

If one is not burdened with knowing anything yet is it feasible to start and stay with C#/Xamarin alone or must one also master the other environments to fill gaps?

Well, yes. I did and I appreciate this correction. Another fine example of the fact that correlation is not necessarily causation. One our old brains are incredibly prone to overlook.

The question of why pathogens kill their hosts has been with me for at least 50 years. At last a cogent answer.

And the disk drives on that 360 had hydraulic actuators to move the heads. Was that the 2301 or 2311 disk, or something else? Where I was in IBM Poughkeepsie we kept our programs on removable disks of somewhere around 16 in. in diameter. I don't remember the capacity but it was in MB. At the end of the line of disk drives sat our 029 card punch. I spent way too many hours at that punch because my fingers were so inept. There was no backspace 'cause you can't unpunch holes.

We used a card based program to modify the code that accumulated on our personal disk as ISAM data sets. I set that up for my department after dropping and bursting open a very long portable card carrier (of mostly unsequenced cards) that was used before my 1967 "innovation." :-)

What shocks me at the moment is the incredibly clear 50 year old mental map and images I have of that machine room and the computers in it. A 360 model 50 that I primarily used. Beside that a model 40, down the isle a model 67, behind that a 7094 and further on a big ol' model 85. Across the hall a honking model 91. No 1401's in that room, however, but lots of 1403 printers.

That is indeed a good sign if not definitive. Given your creds you've made me much more optimistic.

It has that potential but corporate greed will turn it into a tower of incompatible babble.

I fear that all of this is a race to produce incompatible consumption devices for proprietary paid content channels. I do not expect to see open content for them via open channels and sincerely hope I'm wrong.

Steam is just one of the players that will give you access to their content exclusively via their channel on their device. It's all modeled on Apple. I was once very excited about VR but watching what is happening has cooled my interest considerably. It will probably be a long time before the shakeout that can make it interesting again.

Yeah, Santa Cruz totally sucks. Don't waste your time.

Shhh. Stop talking about Santa Cruz. I'm retired there.

Will there be any way to connect local USB peripherals (like phones, audio interfaces, game controllers, etc.) either to the Paperweight (better named the Puck) or to a local computer for service by the remote one?

The loss of which I've bemoaned for about 30+ years. This, or something very like, it is exactly what I want going forward. My biggest concern would the fate of my virtual computer should the provider go belly up. Without providing for that contingency I'd be really hesitant to put all my eggs in the basket.

A Chromebook adjunct. A way to get Windows and its apps on the Chromebook. The lack (or difficulty) thereof is what stands between me and owning one.

I'm considering teaching, selling and supporting Chromebooks and the people using them in "old folks homes" (as we called them long, long ago) as an inexpensive and low skill entry to the internet. Some potential clients will have enough experience that they will require Windows access. If (and it is a bit hard to determine from the site) Windows machines with persistence can be created that problem is solved.

Have you looked at the issue of migration from an existing Windows home system into one of yours? Were that made relatively easy it would be a huge benefit. Perhaps a partnership with Laplink and their PCmover would benefit both you and them.