What, exactly, do you get out of doing something like that? As an intellectual exercise I understand probing to see what exactly is accessible on a “blocked” connection, but intentionally wasting bandwidth seems the virtual equivalent of leaving the taps running in a public restroom to waste water, or perhaps clogging the toilet and overflowing it.
It isn’t being read as a joke because the expectation on this forum is that folks are posting seriously and engaging in good faith. There are enough other comment sections on the net that are full of unfunny jokes that add little value to the conversation.
I was pleasantly surprised that my new Dell monitor connects with USB-C cable to to my laptop, and then lets me daisy chain another older Dell monitor off of the first one with a DisplayPort cable. I’ve got power and 2 monitors, plus a full USB-C hub, with just 1 cable into the laptop. So at least Dell has figured it out.
This sounds more tedious than just learning to code on your own would be.
It’s been a long year helping non-programmers figure out why their GPT output doesn’t work, when it would have been simpler for all involved to just ask me to write what they need in the first place.
Not to mention the insult of asking a robot to do my job and then asking me to clean up the robots’ sloppy job.
Not all the time. Many keywords were a shortcut into a curated multimedia portal inside AOL. It could be equivalent to a web site for a brand, but could also be a more general area inside AOL with related articles, chat rooms, etc on that topic. More like opening a magazine than running a web search or typing a URL.
When they reach that unusability limit, most people will call their IT department and have the offending buggy software reinstalled as a fix. IT won’t remove your buggy copy of Microsoft Word and Teams and replace it with WordPerfect and Slack.
>> The app checks for the update every 5 minutes or when the user activates the app.
This is why I use Little Snitch, an application firewall that blocks requests like this and gives me some control over which applications are phoning home all the time. There’s no reason a desktop application should check for updates every 5 minutes. Once a month ought to do it without a compelling reason for more. But none of the lessons learned in the article show any attempt to reevaluate the update check frequency.
To be fair, that clip is Carlson imagining a hypothetical scenario in which he’s the Secretary of Transportation or someone similar, and needs to justify keeping self-driving trucks off the road to avoid putting millions of truck drivers out of work. It is not an example of a lack of journalistic integrity or demonstration of his own televised spin.
I’m sure there are a few of us, I left the NYC to move to a rural area to raise goats and make cheese and soap. I kept my job and work remotely. It has been a challenge. Keeping my job means i’m not completely connected here, or dependent on it to make a living. It’s tough to live in a new place where most of the people have been here for generations. I have a small child now so I hope he’ll fit in and find his community, in a way that I can’t.
Being relatively self-sufficient is its own blessing, though. Especially over the past few years it has been great to have food security and almost everything I need here or within a few miles.
>> And those bank execs just lost their jobs when the banks stopped existing, so you got that.
SVB’s CFO was previously the CFO at Lehman, so whether he still has his job today seems to have no impact on whether the revolving door will continue to open for him or anyone else there.
Allen had a net worth of something like $20 billion. That’s enough money to fund the museum for the next 5,000 years. Maintaining a project like this is NOT expensive.
My first MP3 player (the Rio PMP 300) and digital camera (Canon Powershot 600) both used parallel ports for data transfer. Plenty of other weird things used
the port, Autocad’s licensing dongles come to mind. It was really used for some versatile functions!
The people who are working on this type of tech need to take a hard look at what they’re doing and think about whether they’re comfortable making our society worse.
Very few of the problems described in the story are solved with a virtual machine to run older software on newer computers. Lots of specific add-in cards, precise timing requirements for sampling, and high-altitude, high sunlight, high vibration conditions where an LCD screen does the job.
It had an external docking station with more standard ports, I/O breakout ports to connect accessories like floppy disk drives, built-in modem, and PCMCIA add-in cards.
This is sociopathic rationalization for poor behavior. It isn’t true. If you are a compulsive liar and cheater, perhaps you will justify your immoral behavior by deluding yourself into believing that everyone else is doing it too- but it is not so. We are not all behaving this way.
I do think the hate is overblown and a little immature. Maybe it felt a little silly if you were already a computer expert in 1995, or just hated Microsoft in general as was en vogue at the time, but the character served an important purpose. The Microsoft Office suite was huge, could be overwhelming, and still came with 20 pounds of printed manuals. Was the average user ever likely to discover the Letter Wizard or the Party Invitation Template? Clippy did do some analysis of the document you were typing and make some helpful suggestions to guide a new user around the program. And you could turn it off.
Personally I will go to bat for Clippy and don’t think he deserves the derision.
Mine goes to "sleep" too. I've got the latest client version running on MacOS. If I receive any messages while my computer is idle, even for a minute, they don't refresh on screen or alert in any way. They wont' appear until I jiggle the cursor a bit.
Some of these jokes which are censored for criticism of China are so tasteless that they ought to be censored in the American version as well, or better still, never written at all. A joke about whether the "chicken" at the local Chinese takeout restaurant is actually chicken? In the 21st century? That is supposed to be amusing?
I agree that it’s the best one they sell now. I just had to retire my iPhone SE first-generation from 2016 which was finally starting to fail on me. Coming from that, the newer 3rd gen SE still feels too large in my hands. My biggest gripe, though, is the glass back instead of the old aluminum back. I think this smoothness is the reason the thing keeps falling out of my pocket no matter where I sit or what I’m wearing. The thing will not stay put!
A lot of it is still out there! A personal favorite of mine is https://www.fujichia.com/ which is, among other things, a blog inside a castle, with a fish pond outside and an art gallery. It reminds me of a simpler time when everyone had a handcrafted, bespoke HTML homepage with all sorts of secrets and surprises.
Ford could make a smaller truck with the same size bed, or longer, with a shorter height and narrower width, and shave 1000 lbs or more off the gross vehicle weight. These new trucks are enormous compared to what was standard 20-30 years ago, for really no good reason.
My memory of the hosted Outlook/Exchange landscape of that time is much more negative. It was expensive, had inconsistent or costly support for ActiveSync devices, had no integration or federation with existing on-premise Active Directory solutions, management consoles of shared/hosted Exchange providers were difficult to administer. Broadband was much more limited, so remotely-hosted mailboxes were a hassle.
It did fill a gap for a while unmet by a lot of services that we take for granted now. A Mac Mini with macOS Server to host email, calendar sharing, file sharing, and Time Machine backups went a long way towards meeting a small office's IT needs. It's mostly supplanted by things like Google Workspace, Office 365, Dropbox, and proper MDM solutions these days, but wasn't a bad choice up through maybe 2014 depending on the situation.
Well that might be a concerted effort to keep your attention turned away from all the similarly nasty things happening in your own country. In my country I think about older examples like the Swill Milk Scandal of the 1850s but more recent efforts like “ag-gag laws” that make it a crime to document the brutal conditions inside slaughterhouses and food processing facilities. This isn’t just a “China” problem.
I think what you are describing is a feature of the Amanda backup system, which might be worth a look. It supports writing to a library of "virtual tapes" which can then be backed by real tapes, tape libraries, hard disks, etc. and will handle the splitting/overflow problem that you are dealing with.