Posts by Grunchy 923 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2015
"...I expect there to be lawsuits against the US government for their grandstanding..."
What "grandstanding"? I think you just completely glossed over the crimes Huawei has been committing.
You know what, all of a sudden I've become fully in support of AUKUS and nuclear-powered subs for Australia.
Furthermore I think I'm going to buy more Taiwan and less China from now on...
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
"Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10." That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference this week.
It’s funny you should do this article right now, according to the experts they consulted at 60 Minutes Australia, probably the first thing China will do when they invade Taiwan is to burn down the global GPS system using fricken space lasers.
https://youtu.be/kA2KaEKs1LA
(When GPS quits worldwide — that was our warning.)
Windows 11 reminds me how when the PS5 came out, and Sony threatened to shut down the PS3 PlayStation store, so I splurged 50c on a MotorStorm avatar image (before they’re pulled). But then I also discovered how thoroughly the PS3 had been hacked and cracked, and there’s some really damn good games to be had for nothing! It’s still a hot-damn system for which they seem to have stopped meddling with, and you know what?
I’ve discovered how much I hate endless software meddling.
To the extent that, goddammit, I’m going back to Windows 7.
I probably don’t need any more software innovation anymore, of any kind.
It all works just fine the way it is!
My quadcopter crashed into the neighbour’s tree and was an embarrassing nuisance. I found out it had inexplicably activated a “flight assist” mode. Anybody remember when 737-Max were overpowering the pilot controls in order to crash into the ground?
Methinks robots are intrinsically unsafe... moreover, this has been a known fact for decades, and still these unregulated robots are thrown into our midst.
If they’re going to make it even more difficult I’ll just go away.
It’s like trying to access 3D cad models from Tompkins but you have to phone in to set up an account, and the first thing they want is to mail me a credit application. Uh yeah, sure thing, hell no.
You can access all kinds of 3D cad for nothing at McMaster, they don’t even ask who the H you are, or Anything!
In conclusion, I’ve had it with git. I never friigen figgered out their stupid scheme, anyway.
Eh, I ran my own BBS for years and years. There was tons of sasquatch theories and calls for anarchy and whatever. I ruled it with an iron fist!
Well actually, I didn't, but I knew another guy who ran his own competing BBS, if you told your modem to "ATH" without using his logout routine he had his BBS programmed to auto-ban you for a week. I was like, "but my mom picked up the phone!" ABSOLUTELY no sympathy. Pretty much Gingrich Khan in the flesh...
According to these guys here:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-teams-personal-use-rolls-out-web-and-desktop-24-hour-calling
I do have awesome news for cheapskates like me who have a thrift-store PS3 Eye webcam who can't get it to work on Windows 64-bit because there's only 32-bit drivers, and 64-bit Teams won't use 32-bit webcams (it's like, obstinate about it).
The trick is to use the 32-bit edition of OBS studio freeware and install the virtual webcam extension, which presents to Windows as a 64-bit service.
What you do is restrict the video capture from the full-res 640x480 to a diminished window of 640x360, and by cutting off those 120 vertical pixels the remaining picture is of 16:9 proportion, and can then be served via Teams as a mock 720P picture.
The best part is you can avoid "ManyCam" scamware, defy Microsoft's forced obsolescence of 32-bit web cameras, and compel your workplace to suffer with the low-res output of your thrift store prowess. Universal win on all fronts & I can confirm it actually works in the end. I am not a crank!
I’ve got just about every single Whizzer & Chips Christmas annual, plus I’ve got two complete copies of all the Doc Savage pulps also. Luckily it looks like The Rock isn’t ever going to follow through on his threats to remake the original 1975 movie (which featured Ron Ely, famous for portraying Tarzan in the 1960s, but sadly could not replicate Weismuller’s iconic whooping call).
The industry may cheat songwriters, but I have a problem finding anything entertaining enough I would feel compelled to pay for!
Most “entertainment” seems to me self-indulgent garbage that is, incidentally, also not entertaining.
You know what I like about Project Gutenberg, they have some genuinely interesting material, it’s in open PDF format, and the price is right.
Yup, I too have Br0derbund’s (C) 2006 set of 7 CD-roms including every single issue of Mad... er, up to 2006, that is.
https://www.amazon.com/Broderbund-Totally-Mad/dp/B00113N12E
I actually still have my Sony Vaio UGN-VX50 Ultra Mobile PC (that runs Windows XP), sadly it never could play a CD-rom (being physically smaller than a CD-rom).
I did make CD images, which are on the HDD somewhere, but then why do I keep the CDs anymore?
What, me worry?
The lid was blown off a similar scheme between McDonalds Corp and Taylor refrigeration to exercise monopoly power over franchisees to lock them into faulty buggy ice cream machines and frequent and expensive servicing fees.
https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4
Not to mention John Deere holding farmer’s tractors hostage with software locks and warrantee threats, etc.
https://youtu.be/EPYy_g8NzmI
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Because of an ill-advised comment uttered approximately at the same time as a certain "Dunnild Tramp" got his own ass banned, the Twitter organization has invited me to delete said comment and thus regain access to their fine web property. But in order to do that they want to make sure I provide to them my cell phone number. But I aint got none.
So I'm like, "bother!"
Anyway who cares.
(Hack away at my Twit account - I dares ya)
People are afraid of change precisely to the extent that they cannot foresee what kind of BS problems they are going to have to deal with.
I personally don't like those gimmicky retracting door handles, you know what happens when that nonsense wears out and becomes glitchy and you have to crawl in through the trunk?
I'll tell you right now that your #1 problem is going to be me laughing in your fool face for buying into that crap!
Ever notice how they call it “cloud computing” rather than “forfeiting control to our organization with unknown security, resources, finances, and reliability”, and which organization could get hacked or vanish completely at any second, if not steal your data themselves or suddenly require you to pay ransom. Oh and you have no idea who any of them are or where they are located on the planet, or if they are on the planet at all (could possibly reside on stolen space on any of thousands of whirling satellites, for all you know).
Oh yes, I stashed ALL my data in the cloud, wouldn’t you?!
Health care insurance is just as communist as automobile insurance or life insurance or homeowners insurance. As if, what! A tornado is coming to knock down my house or damage my car, I don’t ruddy well think so! Or “covid is threatening my life,” nice try, commie. Got vodka to go with those peanuts?
I heard Pence intends to supersede Trump via 5th amendment, then when nobodies looking he steals congress by executive order, pardons himself, and has govornment run out of town on the rail. Then he retires to tahiti where they still have, “tahiti treat.”
(Epilogue: trump gets demoted to bellhop after putin calls his loans and installs new leadership at the very nice hotel, be a shame if something were to happen to it.)
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