Reason I mentioned it, is that it happened to me. Some sort or hard drive failure during the backup. Main drive was ruined, and the backups having not completed were useless.
Had to pay $800+ for one of those data recovery companies to work on, transplant the platters to a different mechanism in a clean room deal.
. I know someone who just duplicates his array to a second set of disks once a month. If he's not doing the backup the disks are in the safety deposit box.
So if something goes badly wrong with the computer during the creation of the backup set, he's got nothing.
If you one is going to the trouble of a safety deposit box. Have at least 2 separate sets of disks in it, and rotate which set you use from month to month. That way all 3 sets are never in the same place, and NEVER all hooked up to the same computer at the same time.
Anything else, smartass?
What citations could you possibly need? Haven't you read the news at any point in the past several years?
Large swaths of North America have had almost zero cases for a couple of decades. And in the course of the last decade or so, we've gone from that to vilifying disneyland for being a disease vector, and clumps of outbreaks have been appearing in various major population centres, especially around those where the anti-vaxxer movements have been highest.
I'm not going to waste my time spoonfeeding you information when you're literally one google search away from finding it yourself.
Actually, there IS a very good reason. It's called insurance, because shit happens. There will be a small segment of people who react badly to vaccines, because there are small segments of people who react badly to all sorts of ridiculous things, from onions to sunlight.
Unfortunately, a majority of these people don't even know until AFTER they've already been exposed and go into anaphylactic shock or worse.
But the benefit to getting the entire population vaccinated is so overwhelmingly great that the idea of NOT vaccinating people is just ludicrously irresponsible, so this little insurance fund was set up to help those that draw the short stick.
We will never be prepared for a global epidemic as long as anti-scientific morons are able to influence and/or dictate policy.
For example: The vaccination efforts of the last century have effectively been wiped out thanks to the idiotic anti-vaxxer movement, causing measles cases to surge, and are continuing to increase. I'm planning on talking to my doctor about the possibility of a measles booster just to keep my family safe.
And then there's the whole Thimerosol thing, which single-handedly destroyed our ability to easily distribute vaccines en masse. All because some assholes with zero chemistry knowledge freaked out because there was a mercury atom in the molecule. It doesn't occur to these people that if they took common table salt and consumed their component elements, your body would dissolve, punctuated by explosions.
So no, I expect that we are going to see more and more small epidemics of various diseases, and it's probably going to get significantly worse, all thanks to uneducated morons who think their ignorance has the same weight as hard-won knowledge.
No offense... but I read your post twice... and I seemed to have missed your point. You gave us quite a detailed description what languages you and people you know have been exposed to... and then just stopped.
I presumed you were somehow going to tie it back to the article or summary; but you never got around to it??
For my part I took french immersion in high school; and that was enough for me to completely agree with the summary; that the gestalt switch one makes to think -in- another language changes how one thinks. To the point where I'd be thinking in french and have to think very hard how to translate a thought back to English despite it being my first language.
I'm surprised this has only recently gotten any actual study?!
yo have to go to something that looks like a failure state before you can create a local account. fucking ridiculous.
Not quite. It prompts you to sign in with your existing Microsoft account. At the bottom of that screen, it says "Don't have one? And a link to "create a new account".
Contextually that, for a lot of people is interpreted to mean "Create a new Microsoft account" however, if you click it you are presented with an account creation page for a Microsoft account but at the bottom it offers another link "Sign in without a Microsoft account" and you can create a local account from there.
The fail state you refer to is the -other- way of reaching the same page -- where you enter dummy microsoft credentials in; force it to fail to login; and that lands you on a page where you can create a local account as well.
However, the "proper" way to reach the local account option is the first:
Create new Account
Sign in without a Microsoft account
So its not as bad you suggest, I agree it's just obscure enough to be misleading.
For what its worth a lot of OEMs are shipping with a local user account pre-configured or are otherwise customizing it to create a local account by default.
I would only believe you if you are using the Microsoft Design Language variant.
I'm not even sure what that is. I'm guessing that's the Windows 8 full screen app version?
No, its just a regular Windows 7 PC with an i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, And IE11.
I don't know what to tell you. IE11 starts as fast as Chrome does; if anything I'd give the edge to IE11. However both are comfortably sub-second from launch to loaded and ready to use.
I've got an other older i7 windows 7, with spinning disk drives. Booted it up, fired up IE. Got about 1.5 seconds of the spinning cursor, then the window displayed and it was ready to go in under a second. Exited it. Subsequent launches lack the 1.5 seconds of spinning, and display and load the window immediately; ready to use still comfortably under a second. (And that is a first gen i7 from 2011.)
For the record, Firefox and Chrome were similiar. A second or so of busy-cursor before the window appeared; ready to use within half a second or so of the window appearing.
No other webbrowser does this and I can easily reproduce this on any Windows machine I get my hands on.
Again, not sure what to tell you. I have no stake in lying to you; and I have seen the behaviour you describe... of the IE window loading, and being able to type in the address bar, only to have it overwrite it and start loading the default home page. And I agree THAT is a flaw. But I've only seen it on crappy old low spec computers at the office. I just assumed it was slow computers.
However I do not have issues with IE loading slowly on my computers.
Perhaps its a plugin or addon? Perhaps its something to do with settings; for example perhaps you have it set to automatically look for your proxy settings -- that's known to cause a delay on startup with some systems?
Bottom line, assuming your telling the truth, and I'm happy to take you at face value, then there is something else going on, because IE does not have this issue on either Win7 computer here in my office, nor my laptop, nor that I use regularly, nor my Win8.1 HTPC i have in my living room.
I prefer Firefox myself; but do use IE from time to time, and it's not exhibiting the issue you describe.
What do you mean 'at one point'? People still call it that.
Nope, still freezes up, then replaces the link I just wrote with about:blank. Still broken.
Mine doesn't give me remotely enough to even click in the address bar before its finished loading. Nevermind time to type in an address.
Presumably yours is loading slow enough that you have time to type something in the address box before its finished starting up; and then it autoloads the homes page after you've typed in an address as part of its start up?
Bug fix for IE should be to not allow text entry into the address bar until its finished starting up; or alternatively, if something is already in the address bar when its ready to load the homepage to just skip loading the home page.
Either way combining a slower computer with aggressive usage -- typing an address before its finished loading is a pretty minor defect easily worked around by simply waiting for the program to finish starting before you try and use it.
The slow start itself is just your hardware not inherent to IE. As I said, mine is nearly instantaneous.
As a gamer, with a gamer wife and a gamer son, I LOVE steam.
Do you only have one computer? Because that's the only scenario where steam family sharing isn't a steaming pile of ass.
The ability to share game purchases within my family by using the Steam app is just GOLD.
The restriction that if one person is playing a game from their library, no one else may use any other game from that library is ASS.
The only games that we need to buy multiple copies of are online games we want to play together.
If I'm playing Wolfenstein New Order -- my son can't play thing in my library.
Dicking around with online/offline mode is a crappy work around; which of course doesn't do anything for multiplayer games.
Steam needs to relax the restrictions on family accounts. And let you have up to 6 titles running at once from one library or something.
FFS I've got 200 games on the account, and another 200+ DLC. I've had the account nearly 10 years. I'm not stealing from them. I'm not a pirate.
And yes, the restriction is costing them sales. I actively seek to buy titles now on GoG if they carry it precisely because then my family isn't locked out if I'm playing something on steam; and we don't have to putz around with offline/online mode with those games.
I have bought multiple copies of games to play together Portal 2, and Torchlight 2 both come to mind as games i have a couple copies of so we can play together. But I have many other multiplayer games that we have no interest in playing together in my libary
Steam isn't bad, I was pretty exicted when family sharing came out myself, but in practice its nearly worthless. Before family sharing my wife and kids just used my steam account to play my games when I wasn't using anything on the library. Now... they use there own account when I'm not using anything on the library. The only advantage that has brought? My son doesn't need his friends on my friends list anymore. Big fucking deal.
It still freezes up for a few seconds when you start it, ignores the address you just entered and visits the homepage regardless.
Tools -> Internet Options -> General tab -> Home page
type: about:blank
click ok.
Problem solved. Most home pages are annoying.
That's just from the top of my head. A secure turd is still a turd.
I prefer Firefox myself; but I really have nothing against IE11.
Or, you know, I could RTFA and find out that it's actually an effort to create a FILE FORMAT for sharing 3d spatial audio data. Dunno if there's already such a thing, but if there isn't then it definitely makes sense to have one.
What's wrong with OpenAL?
I love standards! There are so many to choose from!
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
