This is quite annoying.
-
I've never heard it called that before. I'll have to think really long and hard about what I'm doing as I stroke it now...
-
-
Macbook Pro has the power button above Delete. Needs pressing for 1-2secs before doing anything, so no accidental issues.
The newer MBPs do that, but my 17" is the last model to have an optical drive - whereupon the button above Backspace is the eject button, with the power button being up in the very corner of the case, a much more sane proposition.
-
I guess I've always been in the middle, referring to it as the "Nubbin".
-
-
@Arantor said:
an optical drive
A what now?!
Where metal discs go in and films randomly appear on my laptop's screen.
-
The newer MBPs do that
It's actually quite a stretch above the home row to hit that. A short press brings up a shutdown dialog IIRC, and a long one actually forces the thing off (just like a long press on the power button of most modern PC motherboards does).
-
It's actually quite a stretch above the home row to hit that.
On a newer MBP? It's directly above Delete, it's on the same line as the F keys.
-
On a newer MBP? It's directly above Delete, it's on the same line as the F keys.
Yes. It's out of range of my fourth finger, which is what I normally use for backspace, and I don't normally push my middle finger across that far. The only key at real risk of generating an accidental hit for it is F12 (a.k.a., the volume up key) but I don't use that very often.I guess it helps that I learned to keep my fingers over the home row long ago. :)
-
I've hit it a couple of times but never for long enough for it to do anything.
There's a Windows keyboard connected a lot of the time so no chance of it then anyway.
-
There's a Windows keyboard connected a lot of the time so no chance of it then anyway.
I hardly ever have external keyboards and mice connected. Too hard to use them when you're travelling, and I used to do that a lot.
-
@loopback0 said:
@Arantor said:
an optical drive
A what now?!
Where metal discsThe primary component of optical discs is plastic. They also often have an ink and/or paper label. The metal is actually pretty minor component.
-
Yes, yes, I know but "metal discs" was cooler to say than "plastic discs" or "plastic discs with a thin metallic layer"
-
Last two weeks or so, I'm playing a back and forth of "autoupdate, roll back" with my GPU with win10, as it been working for about 30 minutes after every (re)start, until OS decides to update it which drops my FPS from about 40-60 in Hawken to about 10-15. (And in any other fullscreen 3D app, I just use Hawken as a kind of test because it starts the fastest and it's most noticeable in there, including the exact moment when the change happens, which is often in the middle of a game).
Reverting to previous driver works until next restart, or until I quit the fullscreen 3D app (any game, in this case).At sunday, I decided to start writing intentionally profane feedback posts to their feedback app every time I needed to do the restart (which meant about every 30 minutes, and about 4-6 times a day), explaining the reasoning behind it in the feedback text itself, using things like
"If your OS was just and OS and had this problem, I'd understand that. If your OS was the spyware it is, but made my PC work correctly, I'd accept that. But it being a fucking piece of spyware while also fucking up my PC is fucking inacceptable"
and
"so you might want to fucking look into it you fucking incompetent fucker pricks"
and
"I hope you have a filter set up which moves profanity-laden feedback to a 'we might want to look at this because customer seems really pissed'"
and such.
After two days of this practice, It seems the issue went away, for whatever reason.
Next time, try something similar, maybe M$ will remotely re-activate your touchpad.
-
Disabling the physical hardware with a physical switch is stupid.
Unless it's a camera/microphone, in which case you really don't want software switches because spyware.
-
If I'm at home or travelling I don't use them, but in the office I do.
-
camera/microphone, in which case you really don't want software switches because spyware
A generation of MBP owners found out that not even a hardware switch can guarantee freedom from that, if the designer wires the switch to the wrong pin on the controller.
-
A generation of MBP owners found out that not even a hardware switch can guarantee freedom from that, if the designer wires the switch to the wrong pin on the controller.
What do you mean "wrong pin" ? It disabled the LED so now we can spy without anybody knowing.
-NSA
-
and porn films randomly appear on my laptop's screen
sounds more like some nasty adware ...
-
sounds more like some adware I would like to have...
Well just install this and use the included browser to surf some random pages... It will install all the adware you want!
-
Seriously, why did optical discs suddenly become uncool? Harder to lose than an USB stick, it works for decades, and you can put your favourite games on your shelf like books. I find it very practical to have my most important software, OS, drivers, stored on DVDs in a box, undeletable etc. I could never find a USB stick if I put it away a year ago, but I can find my CDs from 2000 just fine.
-
I could never find a USB stick if I put it away a year ago, but I can find my CDs from 2000 just fine.
You need this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhS8OQrORE
-
My personal laptop has an optical drive but I've never used it. Between downloading software and big USB drives there isn't a need to.
-
Unless it's a camera/microphone, in which case you really don't want software switches because spyware.
Except I'm not a paranoid wackoid, so I don't really.
Now tell us how burning jet fuel can't melt steel.
-
It Can't!
Weaken it to the point where it is useless to hold up buildings however...
-
Yes, yes, I know but "metal discs" was cooler to say than "plastic discs" or "plastic discs with a thin metallic layer"
But it is not accurate! And if it is not accurate, then it is wrong!
-
It Can't!
Weaken it to the point where it is useless to hold up buildings however...
Dammit! d!
This is what I get for having an hour commute and no reliable public transportation.
-
Seriously, why did optical discs suddenly become uncool? Harder to lose than an USB stick, it works for decades, and you can put your favourite games on your shelf like books. I find it very practical to have my most important software, OS, drivers, stored on DVDs in a box, undeletable etc. I could never find a USB stick if I put it away a year ago, but I can find my CDs from 2000 just fine.
They're awesome!
puts backpack down, hears crunch
Aw shit.
-
Little Round Mirrors
-
It Can't!
at least, not in the circumstances with WTC.
If you set the situation differently and used the jet fuel in a far more controlled (and better insulated circumstance) you could use it to melt steel.
this is because the flame temperature of JP-8 (Jet A-1) Fuel is 2,500 K under ideal conditions and steel melts at 1783.15 K
however that is for ideal conditions, and would involve a pure oxygen oxidizer rather than the ~23% oxygen oxidizer of standard air
the open air burn temperature (the temperature it would have been burning in WTC) is only 1305.37 K. That's sufficiently warm to weaken steel significantly, but not hot enough to melt it.
-
Goddamned you humorless fucks. Does NOBODY get a joke?
-
Does NOBODY get a joke?
There was a joke?
sorry, all i saw was an opportunity to geek out over the chemical properties of JP-8 and its interaction with steel.
-
Right because that's relevant to laptop trackpads.
Goddamned.
At least mrguyorama is probably just being a dumb moron.
You're being an ass.
-
Right because that's relevant to laptop trackpads.
if it means that much to you i'll ask to have the relevant posts jeffed out of your thread.
EDIT: I have now requested this to occur.
-
They are annoying you. Seems to be on topic.
-
EDIT: I have now requested this to occur.
It is with regret that I inform you my request for Jeffing has been 'CLOSED-WONTFIX' by the responding moderator.
/shrug
I tried. maybe you as OP would have better luck?
-
Look, here's the deal.
I don't care about moving posts.
But if I make a one-liner joke about "ha ha conspiracy nuts and their jet fuel melting steel thing, right guys? right? nudge nudge?" don't reply to it like it's an actual topic of conversation when it's obviously just a damned joke.
Mrwhatevern00b did this first, so really that's where the problem lies, but then don't make it worse by replying to it. Ugh.
-
don't reply to it like it's an actual topic of conversation
Topic drift happens. We all deal with it.
If it bothers you ask for the drift to be jeffed.
/shrug
I see no problem here.
-
I wouldn't know about decades. I recently pulled out a set of archival-quality media (in a dark, dry, cool location) and found that about 4% of the data was corrupt/unreadable across 50 disks. That was apparently enough that the backup software just gave up on restoring the 3Tb of data I was trying to sort through.
These were burned circa 2002 when I was moving to a NAS after discovering the... intricacies of running a network where every machine was a "server".
-
Life expectancy estimates for standard optical discs range from 10 to 200 years. If that is not sufficient, M-DISC optical discs use a mineral substrate that gives the disc an estimated lifetime of 1,000 years. The only problems are the cost of blank M-DISCS and that not all drives are capable of reading M-DISCS.
-
10 to 200 years
I remember that claim, but can't recall where I read it. Certainly hasn't been my experience in any case.On another note, at the time of failure I was considering playing RAID with a CD disk pack. Sounded pretty snazzy at the time, but now it sounds incredibly stupid...
Can you imagine that process, rebuilding a faulty CD from the other disks in the stack? Not to mention how awkward it would be to get it set up in the first place...
-
Life expectancy estimates for standard optical discs range from 10 to 200 years. If that is not sufficient, M-DISC optical discs use a mineral substrate that gives the disc an estimated lifetime of 1,000 years. The only problems are the cost of blank M-DISCS and that not all drives are capable of reading M-DISCS.
Finally. I have heard about most of the widely used data storage technologies having a short lifespan, but now I (at least theoretically) know the solution.
-
Finally. I have heard about most of the widely used data storage technologies having a short lifespan, but now I (at least theoretically) know the solution.
For more information: I know that M-DISCs are available in DVD and Blu-Ray.
Funny story: I put an M-DISC drive in a computer I was building about 2 years ago because it was the best drive for the cost I could get. 6 months ago my FIL tells me about a new archival media he's heard about: M-DISCs! I know I'd told him about it when I build the rig 2 years ago.
-
I thought that was the entire point of the forum
-
Goddamned you humorless fucks. Does NOBODY get a joke?
We would if you'd only explain them better.
Explaining jokes makes them funnier!
(you can tell that this last part is a joke, because it has an exclamation mark. Do you think it would be funnier with two??)
-
Do you think it would be funnier with two??
No, but it would be funnier with some explanation.
-
Well it's a kind of irony.
Explaining jokes obviously doesn't make them funnier, it just ruins whatever tiny scrap of humour might have been buried in them and which the person demanding the explanation has obviously missed. Therefore, the claim that explaining jokes makes them funnier is nonsensical, and nonsense is funny.
At this point, the right thing for you to do is say "Oh, I get it! Ha ha!" and make your face go like this . That way, everybody else will think that you are in on the joke, which will increase your status within the group and your acceptance by the other group members.
But if you do this, what you will have done is told a lie. Because explaining jokes can only actually be funny if done with a completely straight face for a completely disproportionate length of time, which is clearly not the case in this instance.
I hope this has helped resolve your inquiry. Is there anything else we can help you with today?
Your feedback is important to us. Please take the time to fill in a short survey after the end of this session.
-
See ... it was funnier with some extra explanation!
-
Well done! You are now in on the joke.
Do we have a for that?
-
Well done! You are now in on the joke.
Do we have a for that?
No there is only a to make the fox or hedgehog foam.