Same genetic background. I trust them as far as I can spit a rat.
Anyway, there are free and paid for solutions, with and without support that fit the bill at least as well as this one. Nothing stands out about the offer.
I agree. Ads which cover 80% of content, popup, popunder, music, impossible to close, super repetitive, super repetitive, super repetitive, purposely distractive, should be blown to heck.
Sometimes, I turn off my ad blockers. The interweb is unusable. Just crap. Half the websites I'd never, ever use at all if I didn't have an ad-blocker.
I don't have any problem with content producers getting paid for their work through ad revenue. I have a problem with them festooning their content with so many fucking ads that I can't get TO the content. - I can't agree more.
And homophobia!
And misogyny!
And ageism!
And regligous bigotry!
And partisanal bias!
And, if all else fails, a deep distrust of everything different from oneself!
So, practically all copy were corrupt then. And now.
1 - People with those skills might actually say "Go to Hell" if posted with morally grey, or downright illegal task.
2 - Managers like "yes" men/women/other
3 - It hurts profit to think. Just DOOOOO.
4 - Never mind the quality, feel the width
Because the Intel Mac, was, I think, the last of 27inch 4k screens. And it is beautiful to look at and use.
During Corona WFH I would use this beast to Remote Desktop in to my work laptop. Because it was so much nicer. Then, after a break for dinner and some excercise, I could spend a couple of hours studying my Masters using the same machine.
Now, I haven't need process heavy tasks, a little transcoding aside. I could have done it CPU bound or accept the compromise and use the Video Toolbox, which produces beautiful (if larger) files.
Although Apple might be dropping support for the Intel Mac, I'd hope for one last bug fix release of Tahoe before it goes in to the long twighlight beyond.
money is not necessarily the answer. It may however, compensate the victim.
However, it does not punish the perpetrator. Knowingly or not, somone has had their liberty stolen from them. I wold propose that from the cop issuing the citation, up the chain of command, they all be forced to the same prison/lockup/facility that the innocent was subjected to, for the same amount of time.
Person in the slammer for 20 years on a false conviction, facked evidence, etc? Thats about 7300 days for Office Joe, Seargent Schmuck, Luftenant Loser, Captain Jack of no-spades and Comissioner Looney-Bin.
Double, if it was malicious. That will make a few sit up and take notice. It would be very effective. "To serve and protect"
Agreed.
They have planted a certificate in their software. Expiration date +- 10 years. Why not 20? 50? 100? I don't believe they are using a CRL for that certificate. Otherwise, it would be too easy to kill the cert. They knew it was time limited. But they sold it as perpetual.
That's clearly misreprsentation too me. Fraud.
The fixes are easy. (1) an update can simply for another 10 years, or (2) remove the need for the activation server. Heck, the 2nd is simply a a GOTO statement to bypass the affected code.
You pretty much have to produce content that follows an established formula or audiences^W shareholders won't like it.
FTFY
No, not all still exist. I know, I was there and have the unemployment to show for it.
But enough exist that there are managers paid well enough to kick the can down the road while failing to make any meaningful improvements.
You build mass transit systems like you build networks.
Access nodes, hubs and cores. At the access level is a bus, or potentially a tram (not a streetcar). Think last mile. Well, kilometer. But it's probably more than that, but you get the idea. Buses should connect at some point to the trunk route. They should be accessible by walking not more than 1km, ideally a bit less. Stops should be frequent enough to be accessible but not so often as the trip bogs down to an endless stop-start-stop-start.
Trunks are Rail (or light rail), connect at the hubs. Separated right of way, mostly. This allows express running and stops are several km between them (eg, 5km, plus or minus). Fast enough to get going and beat traffic. Ideally they should have some commercial activity "on the door step". Like a major hospital, university, shopping district or commercial district. Not in the middle of a sprawl. Target top speed 100km/h to 160km/h for longer stretches.
Core routes are then high speed rail targets. 20 to 50km apart. Linked to other neighbour cores directly. Target top speed 200 to 200km/h
Occasionally you'll get super "Core", such as state, or national capitals or major urban areas. The target top speed would be 300km/h or more.
The whole lot if of course "Token Ring" and fixed slots. (Cars are more Ethernet)
Of coruse, that's the theory. In reality with have (1) geography and (2) the reality of how land is used now based on potentially hundreds of years of use. Good luck fixing that.
Why? Just why?
Sometimes, Oil and gas is needed. Lubricants, etc. Some types of transport.
However, anyone with any sense is going electric. First you don't need to kowtow to facist dictatorships, like the US, UK, and the MIddle East. And Norway. So, you gain a lot of sovereignty.
Its better for the environment. No, it isn't a reliable source of energy but energy saving technologies exist and are getting better.
Not going to ignore the nasty chimicals in battery technology and their own supply chain issues. They exist.
If you support dying technologies, you'll die with it.
I think that as more vehicles transition to Electic, or, still potentially other fuel sources like Hydrogen, Fuel stations will transition.
Indeed they won't be "Petrol Stations" or "Gas Stations", they will be fuel stations. Most already sell Diesel and Petrol. And in many places LPG. So, just add a few electric charging stations to replace lesser used bowsers?
Probably most fuel stations are also already convenience stores so there is that to add to the profit margin.
Local one near me has just added a Tesla superstation with 20 chargers AND 10 or so fuel company branded chargers. As well as keeping the 8 or so petrol bowsers. And on Saturday shopping days, the place is packed. Chockers. With a queue.
The gas stations won't just dissapper, it will still be local. Just different.
I only need the Smart TV to be able to turn on, change the volume and change HDMI input. That is ALL. I can put my Kodi, Plex, Apple TV, and cable provider, even my laptop, ipad and GoPro to the HDMI input. No network, no apps, no wifi and NO login.
My dad on the otherhand, does need some smarts to load Kayo. On the otherhand (how many hands?), if he can't access Kayo, NOT seeing the Tiges sink to another crushing defeat will help his blood pressure.
Imagine this: Microsoft could re-write Windows using a system of modular components, each highly specialised. Each component would do one thing and do it well. each with a well understood boundary.
Wait
(Those that do not understand Unix are bound to re-implement it, badly).
Even if there were no environmental impacts, Energy Independance (from all spheres of influence) is a good one.Roll on the EV.
Not a coincidence how money follows oil and thereafter follows a crappy absolute dictator. Like Iran, Russia, The US, Venezuela, Other Middle East states. I don't want to support any of those regimes. (Norway is one of the few that bucks the trend),
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