Re: USB Keypad
How can you have decent tactile switches with a single panel display?
Why does a keyboard need USB-C?
It seems like a nice idea badly done.
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Yet they are incapable of blocking neo-nazis, paedophiles, scam adverts, bullies, racists, anti-vaxers and massive amounts of bot propaganda.
Australian government missing the point. It's not the news scraping is the issue, they are indeed doing more than links. It's the cesspit existing and exploiting the users.
Just delete all Zukerberg apps and your account.
I told you it was bad. See last frame.
No-one needs that cesspit of bullies and misinformation where the users are the product.
Total shame on companies using it and twitter for customer support. Lazy and damaging customers.
No, it started with how the USPTO works and Edison.
Patent Trolls started with Edison. He was one.
It's a direct consequence of the deliberate design of how the USPTO works. Rather than spending money on checking validity, prior art, obvious to someone versed in the Art, Novelty etc, they approve, because then they get paid. The theory is that invalid approvals should be challenged in Court. This is since the Victorian Era and favours big companies and most of all lawyers. Apple might spend more on Patent related costs than real R&D. In reality the actual iPhone Patents and Design Patents (UK= Registered Designs) are laughable and should have been cancelled. But Samsung is an Alien owned company in the USA.
IBM and Qualcomm are practically patent trolls.
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Though underused compared with Art Deco (just before 1928 Modernism) and now used to to describe anything older than about 1965. Art Nouveau is confusingly before Art Deco. Then before that you have the Pre-Raphaelites who are confusingly long after Raphael.
Modernism is sort of related to Bauhaus, 1919 to 1935, which was shuttered by the Nazis. Some of the Bauhaus furniture still looks pretty modern, nearly 100 years later. The architecture in a way was developed into brutalism. Falling Water looks pretty as do many 1930s industrial buildings, but is a maintenance nightmare. A survey a few years ago got the public to rate buildings and found that the longer the Architect has been in practice the less the public liked them. Ego takes over from practicality, beauty and function.
Really anything after 1939 is probably post-modernist.
Don't get me started on retro, especially as regards styles of appliances and radios. Gah!
A totally stupid reason.
The reason some companies are doing it is to stop selling SW and only rent it. Also so called Cloud based gives them more control.
Web based is fine for collaborative. It's a stupid bonkers model for local applications with data used by one person at a time.
Less secure, less private, lower availability, bigger resource and environmental footprint.
Any Web version has to be purely a complementary option, NEVER the default.
Same time as soldiers in USA bases on Okinawa get tried by the Japanese for crimes committed outside the base.
The USA solved the driving issue in Okinawa by making the whole island drive on the right. Japan drives on the left like Ireland and the UK. Which side of the road to people drive on in the US areas of bases in the UK?
And while the sanctions against Iran may be valid, why are transactions between 3rd parties that are not American, even it was Huawei, actually crimes with extradition to USA? A Country proven to be biased against people not American and against foreign companies that rarely ever permits any of their citizens to be extradited, especially if soldiers or diplomats. Diplomatic immunity isn't a wildcard get out of jail free thing.
So yet another one sided USA case, even if the allegations are true. This, Assange and Autonomy should be chucked out. These people are not people that have fled USA and are unlikely to get fair trials.
It's a scam. Get out now.
You think it will rise more and stay in. But the people behind the scam will know when to get out.
Meanwhile it's destroying the Environment. In terms of environment and scalability the most evil software system ever.
Ordinary people will lose out.
It's simple. Only sales and customer retention makes money.
So they will only ever have the minimum number of call centre staff for complaints, in terms of keeping a Regulator happy.
"Yes, Sir, Comreg," enthuse eir (really still eircom but moved from Dublin to the Channel Is since stricter offshoring and banking laws came in). "We are adding more call centre staff."
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A novel idea? Improve the actual service quality.
But that reduces profit more than adding a few call centre staff to satisfy the regulator.
Good form this week, Dabbsy.
But this and many other cases by companies like Coca-Cola are simply corporate bullying, over-reaching just in case. This isn't real trademark protection. It's scorched earth policy. It's not just the domain names, but they seem more narrowly policed by aggressive companies like Facebook. They'd be better occupied policing their own nasty, malicious and lying content. The same rules that are applied to radio, TV, papers and billboard surely shouldn't be ignored because it's the internet. Seems they only want laws that suit them applied. And overly harshly.
"The Windows way was to check the Windows version and refuse to install if it wasn't high enough."
No, that was lazy programmers.
I'm sure back in the early 2000s there was a TechNet or MSDN article warning NOT to do it. Certainly I read an MS article explaining. Because features supported is more important than OS version.
I had preview USB stack for NT4.0 and of course USB device drivers mostly wouldn't install, because instead of looking for USB they looked for NT5.* (2K was 5.0). Naturally some suspect NT9.0 was skipped due to programs looking for 9.x, but really Win7 should have been 6.<something> as an increment to Vista, Win8 was really win 7 and Win 10 should have been Win 8.
Rubbish.
Office 2007 and later are a shiny mess. Though there is a third party replacement for the evil ribbon, which makes access to features WORSE than conventional menus.
LO is far superior to MS Office 2003 in GUI and Writer works better than Word. The mistake is to use doc or docx for saving. Only use them to import or export. Use Styles properly. The undocked Style and Navigation windows are superior to MS Word 2007.
Indeed I may migrate from regular Mint to Debian Edition. I was a keen Ubuntu user maybe 12 years ago, but they lost the plot long ago. Mint with Mate Desktop has been my main Laptop system now since Dec 2016, though XP was my laptop OS from 2002 to Oct 2016 when I switched to Win7 and Linux Mint dual boot on a new laptop,
What are they smoking and drinking in Canonical? It's bad enough that people have to have it on Android!
Couldn't decide if Flame, D'oh, Nuclear, or splattered keyboard was a better icon.
I do have one Android based gadget that has an on-off switch for it. This is REALLY stupid.
64 bit XP for Itanic was very short lived, killed off years before 32 bit x86 XP.
It was the 2nd 64 bit Windows. The first was a version of NT4.0 for the 64 bit Alpha.
DEC and demise of the Alpha wasn't really anything to do with the doomed Itanic. That was a more complex thing and also it was great pity Intel got the DEC StrongARM and that HP got Compaq and DEC.
Nearly 11 years ago:
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2010/04/05/microsoft_pulls_plug_itanium/#c_733422
No, they didn't. Palestinians are split between PLO run PA on the West Bank and Hamas run Gaza. Both have their own programs and did accept training but also refused direct help.
Also under 1985 Oslo Accord they run their own health service.
Every year the UN passes anti-Israel resolutions that are rather biased. There are a lot of Arab and Moslem countries in the GA.
And who runs and controls OAuth2?
It's possible to do IMAP or POP3 with Thunderbird (or Android FairEmail) with or without OAuth. However the non-OAuth version needs settings changed in the gmail on webpage and in your actual Google account associated with that.
Additionally ALL Google services complain if you are not using a Google client for any Google Service and your IP or device is changed. You then have to login to your account and Click Yes it was me.
TOTAL ABUSIVE MORONS. The whole point of the Internet is using different devices, IPs, Locations for the same services. So I only have a bare minimum of Google stuff I use now.
I put up with increasing daft Firefox mobile on phone and tablets for years. Had to recently change to Brave (based on Chromium) because Firefox just got too stupid on GUI and also seemed to remove settings.
You do need to change some defaults on Brave.
Also I now don't use any site where I have to login on my mobile or tablet, mostly Waterfox on desktop Linux. I have Chromium on Linux to access some Google Services / Accounts and Firefox for maybe two sites so I don't have to remember to use the Cookie Swap plugin on Waterfox.
And who was the idiot that decided tabs should be separate from the document, above all control interface GUI elements? At least Classic Theme Restorer on Waterfox Classic fixes that. You also need the Classic Plugin Repository plugin on Waterfox since Mozilla purged.
Brave is less than I want on phone/tablet, but seems better than Android's cut down Chrome called Browser or Firefox mobile.
Some gadgets have an on/off setting for Google Framework. Your local Google books, comics and audio in Playbooks are inaccessible without it as the Google Playbooks App vanishes along with PlayStore icon. They do come back when it's re-enabled.
I added FairEmail when I discovered the stock Email client on Android is just a sort of Google Terminal and you are actually telling Google all the email settings.
But aren't most captchas now Google Crowdsourcing data for various projects?
Malicious parasites.
Self Driving I remember when Self Driving meant hiring a car without a driver.
But Mozilla needs to go back to a distinctly separate desktop GUI and a Mobile GUI, stop dumbing down GUI and settings and stop copying Google.
Waterfox Classic with Classic theme restorer is what Firefox should be like on the desktop. It should have the like of NoScript, uMatrix or UBlock Origin built in. The mobile version should look somewhat like Brave, but with all the traditional settings.
You almost don't need AV, if you block all 3rd party and all bad domain by default. Drive by malware via adverts and stupid web design is the big issue. Also block default scripts of ALL SM site buttons and replace them with a simple HTML link.
Chromium is doomed and can it really be a good idea that MS is basing Edge on Chrome/Chromium. Chrome is really intended to be spyware for Google and allow their adverts to run smoothly. Google are an Advert Agency. As such they should be forced to divest of Chrome, Chromebook and Android at the least. They have proven that they are not trustworthy.
People should also stop using remote Google APIs, captcha, fonts and Analytics. Install scripts, fonts and images on your own servers!
Google are the worst sort of parasite.
No, it doesn't.
The balloon thing is a nice idea for a HAP, more like something out of a novel. When you look at the details it was never going to be viable.
Musk's LEO satellites are for well off people and only marginally less stupid. It can't scale to a mass market without a silly number of satellites.
Africa, for instance, has been getting fibre and mobile. Mostly from the Chinese.
Working late till 2 am and the stupid MS office or Windows decides it's not registered after you had to change something.
Then later they switch off servers.
Now they hide the activation phone numbers. You type the HUGE list of numbers and too quickly the computer synthesised voice gives you the new number to type in.
It's a totally abusive system, as is all DRM.
And of course it wastes time of ordinary people and stuff is still pirated on a giant scale.
DRM on video, ebooks, audio streaming etc is a lie. It makes money for the people selling DRM solutions, who are parasites. Books and movies are even commercially pirated before being available on eBook or DVD/BD.
SO STUPID wasting the time of ordinary people.
Google isn't a fit company to own Android, Chrome Browser or Chrome OS.
An advertising company parasitising most internet activities and as much personal information as possible.
Probably they should not be allowed to own YouTube, Gmail, PlayStore, Playbooks or Google Maps. They also should have lost or the case revisited on book digitisation because they don't simply use it for search and even that was a poor excuse.
WHY are the USA allowed to inflict their trade, IP and DRM policies BETWEEN 3rd party countries?
Also the USA President is ONLY the USA's leader, not the leader of the Free World. We don't have a leader for the Free World. Not even the UN, which is rightly a talking shop and place for arbitration or negotiation, or to highlight issues. Given the attitudes of the permanent members of the Security Council and the majority of countries of the GA, it's only a convenience that WHO, ITU, Postal Union etc is under the UN umbrella and two of those massively predate the UN. Probably ITU should also control IPs and Domain names as that's slightly less bonkers than having USA private companies do it.
I was a bit disturbed when I realised that the Email Client on Android is really a shell on gmail and all the credentials for the pop3 or imap are actually being used on a google server.
So then I looked at the only SMS client on most Android phones and read about it. Google Messages. Maybe best replaced by Signal or a dedicated SMS application.
Google can't be trusted. It's time they were forced to divest of Android. They don't do wardriving (WiFi) when doing Street View because (a) They were caught. (b) With Android, Chrome and Chromebook they don't need to.
Google are not trustworthy enough to own Android, Chrome and Chromebooks.
Zuckerberg isn't trustworthy enough to own any Apps. Or even Facebook.
We have a problem.
Creating an ebook and copy to Kobo or Kindle isn't bad to avoid paper. Especially to proof novels.
Sony also did Digital Paper, large up to nearly 14" eink based tablets for PDF after they stopped doing ebook ereaders.
Some companies still make them. But they are very expensive and awkward to copy back annotations or notes. Some use a Wacom pen.
Also laptop screens are often now 1080 tall rather than 1200 and 16:9, both of which is less good for the paperless office than laptops 2002 to 2005.
And MX-80 on Apple, Research Machines and BBC micro.
The RM 380Z (I think that's the model) only had 7 bits on the port. We modified a few to have 8biits. The I/O chip and the OS supported 8 bits (needed for graphics or extended characters), so the missing wire was a strange decision by Research Machines. As was having the bus ribbon cable on the top of the cards on the shoebox case instead of various other possible methods that would let you swap a card without unplugging all of them. It seemed a big step back from S10, 0 bus machines. A little later we had the Act Sirius 1, which was far superior to the IBM PC which arrived in the UK slightly later. Victor 9000 in USA, where the IBM was earlier.
IBM original: No graphics, no HW clock, no audio, low capacity floppy, shiny screen, edge connector ISA. Parallel and Serial needed an option card.
ACT Sirus 1: 800 x 400 graphics, matt screen, HW clock, Audio, parallel, serial and maybe GPIB? High capacity floppies. Though you could blow the fuse in the monitor if you set a wrong refresh rate.
You could just about cut stencils with the 9 pin Epson DMPs. We had a 132 column Epson up till late 1990s. The MX80 maybe bought in 1981 or 1982.
Brother Duplex Colour laser / scanner now.
I do have USB parallel and serial ports that are not that old. Work on Linux and Windows. Also I have HP and Dlink print servers. I've been meaning to see if my Roland A3+ plotter works on one. I did find that on Windows it doesn't work properly on parallel and much searching was required to find a serial cable from 9 pin to 25 and wired to suit. I've toyed with getting a knife blade to cut vinyl or a UV led with a set of adapted pen bodies to vary the spot size to expose either UV film for screen print or a PCB. But it's cheap to get PCBs in China or Eastern Europe and really a mill is better for instant PCBs than UV plus etching. I did have a mill set up for 0.8mm thick double sided PCB prototypes. Slow but less messy and more accurate than etching and faster than ordering.
My coat has a booklet of Epson DMP commands.
Maybe they meant human sized.
Greek and Assyrian deities were depicted with wings.
I think Cherubim and Seraphim are described as having wings.
The bible mentions Angels: (a) Looking like men, (b) Not being sexed, no male or female, (c) No mention of wings. (d) Occasionally create feelings of terror. Read about visits of Angels to Abraham and Lot.
Mediaeval depictions of Angels are very like those of Nemesis and related Greek entities as well as Sumerian and Akkadian 3D relief wall sculptures.
So while there may be UFOs mentioned in the Bible, none are Angels.
UFOs may be variously electrical phenomena, metrological effects, weather or other research balloons, meteorites, mirages of distant aircraft, actual known aircraft, secret aircraft, drones, rockets etc. Or deliberate fakes. Sometimes lens or radar artefacts. You can get a bunch of UFO shaped objects on many cameras if the lens is a certain angle to the sun or some other object much brighter than the desired view.
Reports start about the time of publicity about balloons, increase with airship deployment and peak at the time of each Cinema or TV new release of related content. The reports of crypto-zoological creatures and UFOs have dropped with widespread phone cameras and dash cameras, but verified sightings of rare birds or animals (in that locality) or Meteorites have increased.
Previously rarely reported electrical phenomena include earthlight, ball lightning and sprites. Sprites are common and regularly seen now by satellites. Earthlight and ball lightning are not understood, except they are natural events.
Even one UFO being actually an Alien visitor is extremely unlikely. If a Flying Object has no explanation it's Unidentified, not automatically an Alien craft.
Ben Shapiro or someone said, "What if it was Facebook that had been shut down rather than Parler?"
Well, I for one would rejoice at companies having to have their own websites, the drop in suicides, bullying, misinformation campaigns, scamming, copyright violations and outright lies. The reduction in personal information being harvested and sold to advertisers. Advertising budgets switching back to print and broadcast instead of Facebook.