Comment Re:just kill them already (Score 3, Informative) 179
Proper embedded applications using XP should be on Windows XP Embedded/ "Windows Embedded Standard 2009". WES2009 is XP based and will get security updates until 2019.
Proper embedded applications using XP should be on Windows XP Embedded/ "Windows Embedded Standard 2009". WES2009 is XP based and will get security updates until 2019.
My guess is that 90% of the android tablets sold are crappy $100 ones, that people use for 5 minutes, then discover they're shit, and never use again.
I have a friend that's a Blackberry fanboy. He bought a cheap $100 tablet and complains about how shitty Android is, and how it always crashes (it's basically stuck in a reboot loop). I suggest it might be the hardware, but he keeps blaming the software. I've never had major reliability problems with my Nexus 4, or my Asus T700T tablet. But I didn't get the cheapest one I could find.
"... a future dominated by retards." I think retards may rise in protest: "We may be retards, but we're not dumb!"
Let me guess: The new version of Firefox will be even less stable. The memory-hogging flaws have not been fixed. The memory-hogging flaws are so widely acknowledged that there are add-ons for re-starting Firefox: Firefox Re-start Add-ons. I use Restartless Restart.
Please no obvious replies to this. Please don't make it necessary to post my list of 22 excuses for not fixing the Firefox memory hogging again.
I'm having another problem with the latest version of Firefox. The toolbar icons change back to the default. I have to go to View > Toolbars > Customize and take away the ones I don't want and put back the ones I want.
Also, when I log into Slashdot, I'm recognized as my user name. However, often when I open a tab for a Slashdot story, the story shows that I am not logged in, and logging in at that tab does nothing. Re-starting Firefox fixes that problem for a while.
Have they fixed Allow popups? I know the version at work, everytime (work) changes the OracleDB server name, I have to readd "allow popup for
I can either show popup (this time), always allow popups from *** (but it won't show the popup), but I can't both show the popup this time, and always allow in the future.
One of the best things Steve Jobs ever did for the security of computing around the world is slowly crush Flash under his heel.
It's bad.
It's always been bad. Apparently, it will always be bad.
Just let it die. It's a CPU and memory hog (another good reason not to use it on mobile; the CPUs these days can handle it, but it's bad for battery life) and it's a massive security hole. Why in the world should it get a pass? Someone at Adobe should've nuked it from orbit years ago.
The inefficiency seems to be getting worse with time. My 2007 PC used to be able to watch 480p Flash videos no problem. Now it studders and stalls, revving the CPU up to 100% while Flash draws in the 2D frame buffer with a crayon. And for inexplicable reasons there seems to be a memory leak: if I watch one Youtube video after another, eventually the Flash process approaches 2GB Working set, and crashes. Doesn't matter the browser.
If I download the raw FLV file and play it in VLC, MPC-HC, etc the CPU sips power at 30%, and it displays butter smooth. So much for all the "hardware acceleration" they keep bragging about with every upgrade. I hope Flash burns in hell one of these days.
What's the problem?
A lot of these people have shit colored glasses bolted to their skulls.
That's just the default Ubuntu colour scheme.
Hate to tell you but open source does enough to hurt itself. Hopefully Linux realizes "Linux on the Desktop" won't ever really happen, and they focus on server and other stuff.
What's funny is when you point out that while Linux on the Desktop has yet to happen, Linux on the handheld (Android) is booming.
Then the Freetards clarify that by Linux they actually meant GNU + Linux, using X11 and wobbly windows for a UI. And having to sudo apt-get some commands on your phone... imagine.
I agree with most of what you say. I also own a 3D printer (Solidoodle 3)
I see two main things that are keeping 3d printing from really taking off in the home. Once they solve these two issues it should really take off. There are other minor issues that need to be addressed as well, but the two issues that need to be fixed are : Speed and Reliability. I've designed up a product that I would like to print, but it takes 1.5 hours to print, and that is if it makes it fully through the print. Issues with warping, clogging, overheating, etc... are the main concerns about reliability.
I would be happy if they could cut my print time in half, but it's the current limitation of the technology being used in the home market. Some other technology is going to have to be used in order to overcome both issues, but those technologies are currently out of the budget for home users.
Unlike the post above, I do think it will happen in my lifetime though.
I'm somewhat reminded of early '90s CD-R burning. Rigs like this: http://www.cbronline.com/news/... were $32500 1991 dollars ($55,000 2014 dollars) if you breathed on them you would lose your $100+ CD-R. Mid '90s saw $1000 CD-R drives. Come the late 1990s CD-RW drives were $300 with buffers, but still the occasional buffer-underrun. Now a DVD burner is $20 and comes with BURN-Proof underrun tech.
On the other hand, 15 years ago about ~90% of my friends who had computers had printers at home to print their photos, these days none of them has (including me).
Take your memory stick to the local supermarket or photo shop to get high-quality prints from a working, regularly serviced photo printing machine is cheaper and the quality is better. The same way I print Photos maybe 5-10 times a year at most, I can't imagine I would need/want to 3D print something that often that having my own 3D printer would make sense.
Even better than taking a flash drive to a supermarket, I can go to their website and upload photos from the comfort of my house. The next time I'm at the store picking up groceries, the prints are ready. At sale prices of $0.10, they are exponentially better quality than home inkjets, and cheaper.
At home I have a monochrome laser printer which is suitable for most of what I need for home. If I need the odd colour document I'll use the work laser
In Canada we get stuck with an abomination combination of the two. Though most things sold are measured in metric, they frequently have roots in "standard" units. A can of pop (soda) or beer is 355ml (12 US Fl oz), a bottle of domestic beer is 341ml (12 Imp Fl oz.) Large 18.9l water jugs are 5 US Gallons. Even though Canada is supposed to be metric, if the word "gallon" is used without specifying US or imperial, it's assumed to be Imperial Gallons, since that's the last gallon we used. I believe some paint retailers got in trouble for their deals on "a gallon" of paint that ended up being 3.78 liters. Produce at grocery stores will be advertized in per-pound prices, but the scales register in kg.
Even though the preferred units in Canada for fuel economy is l/100km, people keep talking about "MPG", and NRCan will also report economy in ImpMPG. Yet even though these people prefer MPG, they don't understand why Canadian tests are "so inaccurate" and result in the MPG being 20% higher than what's posted in the US / what they are getting (eg: it's just the difference in size in gallons). They want to use these arcane units, but are too stupid to realize that there's two gallons, or that odometers don't register in miles, nor do fuel pumps dispense in gallons.
The US gallon (3.78541 liters) is different than the Imperial gallon (4.54609 liters). Fluid ounces are different too. 128 US fluid oz in a US gallon, 160 imperial fluid ounces in an Imperial gallon. So a US oz is 1.04084 Imp oz.
There are PCI cards to replace some of the PDP I/O so the PDP emulator needs to run on the host OS. Also because of licensing it needs to run on HP hardware (since HP bought Compaq that bought DEC). The vendor now supports Windows 7 so we are working to migrate to that.
We are more interested in keeping a stable system(and slowly make progress in migrating the application away from PDP) than making a full on nerd cool Beowulf cluster in mom's basement.
I still use mini computers (PDP-11) at work you insensitive clod. Though a couple run in emulation on Windows XP PC's. . .
Most of the local discussion groups seem to have moved to G+ or Facebook. You can always sign up with a pseudonym if you really want to participate, but yeah... Nothing like the good old days.
Unless I'm missing something, G+ and Facebook don't have nice threaded searchable discussions the way Usenet or a Forum do. Usenet benefits from being decentralized service, and I actually enjoyed using a desktop client. G+ and Facebook are the opposite, and are worse at archiving or searching than Forums. I find for tech-support, Forums / Usenet seems to be where a LOT of solutions are found, as it lets users with similar issues notice a trend, and pound away at their findings and solutions as they go, in a media that gets recorded, where the users aren't organized / patient enough to add that data to a Wiki somewhere.
Similarly, if you dig out an old copy of BYTE or something similar, it is the *ads* which can be more interesting than the articles. You want *how* *much* for *that*??
Occasionally you find an old flyer for an electronics store too. Get to see the price for 27" CRT TVs, $4000 prices for ugly ass beige Pentium 100 computers, film cameras, etc.
Easy. As much as I hate to say it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports.
This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
That's the great thing about open source, you can fix it yourself!
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
