Posts by Grunchy 1102 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2015
I got me my new Toshiba Satellite 2400 and is she ever a beaut: Pentium 4 1.6GHz (180 nm!), 512 Meg DDR, 140 GB hard drive, DVD-rom / CD-RW, 3.5” floppy, wi-fi, 16MB S3 super-savage, V90 56K fax modem, ECP printer port, 3x Universal Serial Bus, infrared port, SD card slot, 2x PC Card slots, 85 key keyboard + 12 function keys, Alps touchpad, RGB monitor port, RCA video port, 1024x768 14.1” TFT LCD.
HANDILY runs Lubuntu 16.04 straight off the live DVD, but why would I toss out Windows XP? How else do you propose I run my Purble Place?
This is the stupidest thing I ever heard. I've seen satellites flying overhead in the night sky, they don't leave streaks like meteorites at all, they just look like any other planet floating by, except you can perceive the motion. You just block out the 'dot' and move on with your observations, it's not like astronomers don't know where each & every satellite is at any moment.
-We know this woman is a witch because she looks like one.
-We know this woman is a witch because she dresses like one.
-We know this woman is a witch because she has a wart.
-We know this woman is a witch because she turned someone into a newt.
-One burns witches.
-One burns wood.
-Witches burn because they are made out of wood.
-Bridges are made of wood.
-However, bridges are multiply realizable. They can be built from stone. [Implied] Building a bridge out of the woman will not determine that she is made of wood.
-Wood floats in water.
-A duck floats in water [bread, apples, very small rocks, cider, gravy, cherries, mud, churches, lead].
-If the woman weighs the same as a duck, then she is made of wood.
-The woman weighs the same as a duck.
-Therefore, the woman is a witch.
I’ve been watching some of these police chase videos wherein the cops spot some hapless motorist mistakenly speeding or turn without indicating or missed a stop sign, then discover there are motorists in such despair they will destroy their own car, and anybody’s around them, and risk life and limb in a last-chance desperate bid to evade that $75 levy and attendant social stigma of being forced to admit, “I ran a yellow light.”
So yeah it’s plausible that Assange would drink arsenic to avoid facing responsibility for his actions, in a world where people are ready to die before capitulating to any social requirement of maintaining their auto insurance policy.
I heard/suspected manufacturers can cause computers to slow to a crawl as a function of their age since purchased. I have an inkling this can be done by your own computer building an artificially intelligent dossier on you based on its faithfully relentless surveillance of everything you do online.
For example, the PC never stops grinding the hard drive back and forth, all day and all night, even if nobody’s been on it for weeks (like for example you leave it running while you nip away to Hawaii for a soak, you come back, and it’s still crunching away). What the hell is the goddamn thing up to all the time?! is what I’d like to know.
Hmm the FAA/FCC might be interested in Apple phones not shutting down radio emissions when commanded to do so.
Anyway I think this vulnerability is already widely known for years. Guys like Osama Bin Laden, and other wanted criminals, have long been aware their goose is fried the moment they become associated with a particular cell phone.
The bad thing about Windows 10 is the surveillance that they threw in there. It’s going to be worse in 11, because the performance requirements have ratcheted up dramatically. What makes Windows 11 so much more resource intensive to run? It can’t be the OS, it must be the artificially intelligent surveillance.
If anything I’m considering going back to Win7 — less spying.
It’s never been illegal to be bigoted or prejudiced, or even outright racist, if that’s your thing.
And it’s not just people of specific cultures or races that some people would never consider marrying, either. Some people think nothing of putting up firm barriers about what genders they won’t marry, what age groups they are going to boycott, they won’t marry funny looking people with big noses, or warts, or they had some body part chopped off, or they belong to a cult they don’t like, or they’re afflicted with alcoholism or they drive a rusty Dodge or their farting dog sheds the wrong colour. Or they have a job they don’t like, or they don’t like the right music, or even whether or not that person observes the Oxford Comma.
No matter what descriptive tendency that a person may or may not have that can be imagined, potential spouses are prepared to be discriminating about it!
Back in 1993 we were told we’re no longer allowed to say ‘mailman’ or ‘fireman’ or other gender specific terms. So I’ve been dutifully saying ‘mailperson’ and ‘fireperson’ and such ever since.
Then I find out I’m the only one who bothered...
It has become like an elaborate joke to see who’s gullible enough to believe that speech can be legislated.
(We had a similar thing when Canada went metric, but it was only automobiles and milk jugs and that’s it. Good luck finding a metric measuring tape in Canada, which has been metrified since ‘76 - only gullible people played along.)
In my opinion all the word processors are pretty much crap. 9x out of 10 I’m just writing a simple cover letter, I always do that in Notepad .txt format for gosh sake, and print to .pdf and there you go.
And I’ll tell you what, I have no qualms about editing those after the fact in vi, for gosh sake.
And you know what I just found I’ve still got installed? Is NoteTab .otl file type, for gosh sake, I’m gonna put all those cover letters into NoteTab.
“But when they DON'T update the UI they get blasted for being behind the times.”
I don’t blast old UI elements for being behind the times, maybe you’re blowing something out of proportion.
People such as myself still use Windows XP in certain circumstances because it’s not abstracted out to the moon like today’s PCs have become.
I also still dig Windows 95, especially the Weezer and Brickell videos.
“What’s with these homies dissing my girl, why do they gotta front?”: indeed.
Tried surfing here via Lynx and guess what, links to the individual stories are not rendered.
Sure I can log in to my account, but what's the use if I can't gloat that I'm surfing here via Lynx because your site is borken?
You guys need to shape up pls, you've forced me to activate my copy of Mozilla. Friendly suggestion.
"Would that be the criminal behavior of a Chinese based company based out of Hong Kong using a subsidiary to trade with Iran in contravention of US law? I find it a bit of a stretch to argue that it's criminal."
Well yeah you're 100% absolutely correct, so long as Huawei doesn't have an arm in USA reselling forbidden American technology to Iran. Except that's exactly what they have, so I guess you are therefore wrong.
"...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.
