Posts by Mikel 2643 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2008
The "Fountains of Paradise" space elevator plan works with known materials on exactly one body in the solar system: Ceres. The combination of low gravity and 9 hour day makes for a shorter tether that can be made of Amsteel Blue.
But not as quid pro quo for throwing the election. We're entitled to a government that is for America first, last and always.
As to Qatar, Trump probably doesn't even know that Iraq's invasion of them was our cue to the Gulf War. Probably doesn't know they're our most loyal ally in the region.
I hope so, otherwise he's throwing us under the bus again on purpose.
He used to be too far ahead of the curve. WebTV, acquired by Microsoft and destroyed. Danger Inc, acquired by Microsoft and destroyed. Android Inc, acquired by Google and found a little success.
He's got plenty of money now. Must be nice to get to work on whatever you want.
The cure for Intel AMT is dead simple on a desktop. Install a NIC and move the cable to it. AMT only works on the integrated onboard NIC. Taking control of your remote management options is essential.
For good measure depopulate the onboard port or fill it with epoxy. Which you should have done on arrival.
Fix works also for AMD platforms.
Notebooks? That's a different story.
On behalf of sane Americans I preemptively apologize for what is going to happen on this comment page. These twits are not sane, are not the majority, and though they purport to be mostly aren't even American.
Let me express some human concern for Kellyann Conway. Clearly she isn't well. Best wishes.
Previously I apologized on behalf of sane Americans and promised we'd get the situation back under control in about four years. At the moment it seems possible to move that timeline up a bit. Will update occasionally.
Know the audience, make the ad relevant, and they will buy the thing more often. You can charge more for the ad, show less of them, and motivate the audience to not block them because they might be relevant to their needs.
Google and Facebook simply do this better than anybody else. Amazon too.
>Whilst writing this I looked around to see why people think it’s still a good thing to use, say, Chrome or Firefox instead of IE or Edge, and a lot of the reasons can best be termed “tenuous.”
As you note, IE is only cross-platform in the Microsoft meaning of the term: it runs on more than one version of Windows. We use more things that don't and can't run Windows at all now, and if you want a consistent Web experience then you want a browser that runs on almost all the things.
And then there are those web Office apps you mention. Microsoft history has their browser deliberately incompatible with other vendors' services, and their services deliberately incompatible with other vendors' browsers. They can't do the latter when their browser is a minority share without harming the prospects of their services offering. So even if you use Office 363 on Windows it's best to do so from Chrome to preserve your option to do so.
These reasons aren't "tenuous".
Mobile phones and tablets are approaching, or have achieved, laptop level performance for most of the tasks you would use a PC for. Not the least because the software is designed to be power efficient, modem reliable and more secure. Ubiquitous networking means the PC can be virtual and live in the cloud. What the mobile solutions have, that has moved a $Trillion worth of hardware in the last 18 months, is: "Not Windows".
"Dell recommends Microsoft Windows"
And they're nobody in mobile. Those two things go together.
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