That's the European luxury of having public channels which are paid per general fees. The only disadvantage is that they are broadcast at weird times. (We do not call it socialism here, we call it public interest of education and culture. We believe that our administration has the duty to keep the population educated, at least in principle. A cop once told me that people have the right to be stupid.)WWGD said:
Almost every country, AFAIK, has its own Public Television System, likely for that reason.fresh_42 said:
You owe me a 3-mile-run in the Central Park now, but the pasta are delicious, thanks.WWGD said:
I gave you and then I owe you? Nein kapisch.fresh_42 said:
I cooked it because of your joke. Now someone has to run off the calories again. Since it was your fault ...WWGD said:
I have always been curious to work out the topology of space-time, but was always too busy ( i.e., too lazy) to work it out, or even to look it up.Rive said:Time is often considered as a dimension on its own right. With all the confusing and disturbing quantum paradox-like experiments it just happened to me - how 'thick' is the 'present' actually?
Doesn't your institution pay for access? Most "non-trivial" institutions get access.fresh_42 said:
Multiplication is usually associative, an operation doesn't have to be.nuuskur said:
Just had a W10 update. 30 min. restart and 20 min. waiting until the background programs gave back enough CPU and memory to work with ...WWGD said:
Aren't updates optional beyond Win 8 or so? Or should you really do them, maybe for security patches?fresh_42 said:
I guess you can avoid them, but then they will get on your nerves with permanent reminders, and if you don't pay attention during shutdowns, installation starts. With W10 even the small rest of transparency has gone. In W7 I could still decide what to update and what not. E.g. I don't need their Java version (forgot how they name their nonsense, something with framework IIRC.) Now it's only update now or postpone it. And postponing it forever sucks. If my early Linux experiences hadn't been so troublesome I would certainly use Linux. But I only know the early versions where you had to be a Linux expert before using it. I always only used it from time to time, so I never get used to it completely. And I fear that I will end up with a Windows emulation in order to get all my old programs running. So I keep watching how W10 trashes my HD with big installations and braking the performance. I see the day coming I reinstall my W7 copy.WWGD said:
Careful if you use your Win7 for VMWare. I used a VM because I had Python 2 and 3 in the same machine and requests to the server end of either created conflict since it was not clear who was going to serve it.fresh_42 said:
Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.fresh_42 said:
I don't know if my issue with win7 was caused by it being in the VM. Still, I doubt security patches are needed at this point since it is not likely it is still used by many. I respect MS updating it, just don't see a good reason to do so.Borg said:Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.
I understand, but I am surprised people are still trying to hack into older versions of Windows?Borg said:
... and W7 was the last one you had a chance for a convenient customization. I still think that 2003 Server ed. was the best OS MS ever produced.Borg said:
But less often used, i would think. I guess hackers would aim both ease and "market size".Borg said:
My wife started the computer and left it run for 3 hours and it never started. Looks like I'll have to perform a Safe Mode debug fest. yippee...Borg said:Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.
I just cold restarted my win7 VM and it worked without needing safe mode. But maybe I was just lucky.Borg said:
I had a black screen, too, for several minutes. It said it recovered the personal settings. So maybe a reboot will do.Borg said:
Ain't technology "wunnerful."Borg said:It *only* took 5 hours to recover my computer...
So I've been told...Bystander said:
