• (disco)

    Well, for x86-based tablets there still is PCIe, just not cards plugged in conventional PCIe slots but probably on-board or daughter boards connected via flex cables. Lots of early on-board USB 3.0 controllers use PCIe and you don't have a physical PCIe card visible.

    Ethernet port on a tablet isn't really that weird either. A quick Google search came up with a bunch of images. It's just like any other tablet, but just a bit thicker. If they really want to make it thin, they can even make a proprietary external Ethernet port connector.

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous

    It's been a while since I saw a tablet with actual PCI Express connectors sticking out on the bottom, though.

  • (disco)

    The Mathematica error text looks like base64, but doesn’t seems to decode into something readable...

  • (disco)

    Isn't Comcast's way of telling you your connection sucks is the fact that it's supplied by Comcast?

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  • (disco)

    I don't get the WTF in the last one. Is it that someone has set the Low battery level to 23 77% in the Windows power options?

    <edit> Damn, it took me literally 3 days to notice it was set to 77%, not 23%. :-| Now that's a WTF! </edit>
  • (disco)

    antagonist.nl have some interesting looking <select>s: [image]

  • (disco) in reply to nerd4sale

    I don't think you can set that value anywhere (you can't on Win8.1 anyway).

    Anyway, the :wtf: is that 77% charge is apparently 'low' ;)

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  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    You can set it on Windows 7 for sure. I don't know about 8.1, I'll check it later.

    The default for low is 10% (on Windows 7), so someone messed with it.

    [image]
  • (disco)

    Re the Mathematica error:

    Manager: You can't show the actual errors to the end-users, it has security concerns! Developer: Security? Any security issues are fixed by encryption, of course!

  • (disco) in reply to nerd4sale
    nerd4sale:
    You can set it on Windows 7 for sure. I don't know about 8.1, I'll check it later.
    That dialog exists in Win8.1 as well ;) <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    It really is just a representation of a PCIe block.

    Like how we sometimes still use a floppy to represent the action "save".

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    [antagonist.nl](http://www.antagonist.nl) have some interesting looking `<select>`s:
    Trying to apply any styling on `<select>` tends to result in a cross-browser mess. (Well, it did last time I tried...)
  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv
    VinDuv:
    Trying to apply any styling on `<select>` tends to result in a cross-browser mess. (Well, it did last time I tried...)
    Don't you have some extra words in there, like "on `<select>`"?

    (Yes, I realise that the situation with web style management and presentation is a lot better than it used to be, but unless someone wants to disabuse me of the notion, I'm going, as a "for example", to allude to the messed-up table formatting code in Netscape Navigator which survived into Firefox. As far as I know - which might not be very much - it's still there.)

  • (disco) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    It really is just a representation of a PCIe block.

    Like how we sometimes still use a floppy to represent the action "save".

    What? You don't still save documents onto floppy disks? What kind of a weirdo are you?

    Well, neither do I, actually, because when I built my current main PC, almost four years ago (it's past time for a new one, I think), the motherboard had no connector for a floppy drive cable, and I couldn't see any virtue in buying a USB-connected drive. Anything still on floppies that I wanted to recover could be copied to the new machine via the old machine and the network. In all that time, I've powered up the old machine exactly once, just to make sure it still works.

    Curiously, the motherboard didn't have any parallel ATA/IDE connectors either. Good thing internal shiny-biscuit drives are available in SATA, then...

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Curiously, the motherboard didn't have any parallel ATA/IDE connectors either.
    Not really; PATA/IDE's been old hat for years. About time they started disappearing. <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    Another :wtf: is that it predicts only 1 more hour of usage out of a 77% charged battery.

  • (disco) in reply to caerphoto

    I dunno; some laptops have pretty crap batteries. And estimating how long they'll last isn't exactly a precise thing…

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  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Not really; PATA/IDE's been old hat for years. About time they started disappearing.

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    Oh yeah, I know. Pay attention: I bought that motherboard four years ago. I have no particular attachment to IDE anyway, except a bit of nostalgia for the machine my work bought back in 1989 or 1990, back when IDE first came out. Typical Norton SI disk index values of the time were 1 or 2 or so for old-style MFM or RLL drives (where the controller was on the host adapter, not on the drive), and this machine (with an early *40MB* IDE HDD) gave a result of 5.1.

    Of course, this machine was configured and drop-shipped to a customer so I couldn't keep it :-(

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Pay attention
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  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I'm tempted to say you're channelling the Rat of Blakey there a bit :stuck_out_tongue:

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    Nah, that's just me being me. ;)
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I dunno; some laptops have pretty crap batteries. And estimating how long they'll last isn't exactly a precise thing…

    Also mine is switchable between onboard and discrete GPU, and on battery with discrete GPU the fan goes into Harrier takeoff mode and the battery life goes rather short.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I dunno; some laptops have pretty crap batteries.

    The battery life gets worse as the machine ages; I've got one (older) laptop where battery life is now around 45 minutes or so, unlike the nearly 4 hours I used to get when it was new.

    It's not my current main laptop. :)

  • (disco)

    The Amazon one isn't much of :wtf:. Retailers frequently prey on a shoppers multi-packs save money instinct. Sometimes they prey on those instincts by just keeping the same per-unit price, sometimes the per unit price increases as you buy a larger pack. There is nothing new about this.

    Also, as has been pointed out by @nerd4sale and @RaceProUK, the last one isn't a Windows :wtf: so much as a configuration and user :wtf:. Did Ben A. really expect the exclamation to go away after he looked at the message? Fix your power options, and then it'll go away.

    The standards for the front page Error'ds seem to be slipping. We get better ones here in the forum.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I dunno; some laptops have pretty crap batteries. And estimating how long they'll last isn't exactly a precise thing…

    Yeah, battery life estimation sucks. I've got a bluetooth headset that warns me when it thinks it has 15 minutes of talk time left. I can usually get at least half an hour out of it after that.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    The Amazon one isn't much of . Retailers frequently prey on a shoppers multi-packs save money instinct.

    But also the pictures don't match the pack details.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    But also the pictures don't match the pack details.

    So? Do you really expect the pictures to accurately reflect the pack count all the time? Besides, the article complained about the math, not the pictures.

  • (disco)

    The Antagonist login makes sense. It's not there to keep people out, just to block robots.

  • (disco)

    Given my current place of employment (We support Amazon sellers), Amazon is ALWAYS TRWTF.

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    It's not there to keep people out, just to block robots.
    There was once a place whereof the Creator once proclaimed that there will never be a bot. Many thought the Creator spake the Ultimate Truth. But there was one who did not.

    For the young vixen was cunning and mischievous, and she did begat the Bot of Socks. And when the time was right, she did unleash said Bot of Socks upon the place.

    And then there came many copies, some clones, some imitators. Forthwith, they caused much wailing and knashing of teeth.

    The vixen, in her displeasure, did set out to reign in the Bot of Socks and its many clones And after many trials, success was begat, and peace returned to the place.

    The moral of this tale: no matter how well you prepare, you can never prevent the coming of the Bot.


    OK, so maybe @accalia wasn't the first to write a Discourse bot. But quite a few are based on her code.

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  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    So? Do you really expect the pictures to accurately reflect the pack count all the time?

    I think that's what the real error'd (TRE?) was.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    :+1: 9.8/10 would lol again.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    :+1: 9.8/10 would lol again.

    Methinks thou dost be biased toward the hedgehog.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Methinks thou dost be biased toward the hedgehog.

    do you disagree with the lol of the poem?

    (note i'm not disagreeing with your statement even as i counterpoint ;-))

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    do you disagree with the lol of the poem?

    (note i'm not disagreeing with your statement even as i counterpoint ;-))

    No, but I Would rate it more like a 7.7/10.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    No, but I Would rate it more like a 7.7/10.
    Eh, I can live with that.

    I've definitely written worse :smile:

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  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv

    Mathematica base64-encodes some types of data in the file. In this case it thinks there's a syntax error in such a section. If you opened the file in a text editor and went to that particular line number, you'd see that literal text, and probably a whole bunch more of it.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    No, but I Would rate it more like a 7.7/10.

    But it has the requisite spellaring and grandma bugs!

  • (disco)

    Maybe TI knows something we don't...

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    But it has the requisite spellaring and grandma bugs!
    Really? I was just using some archaic language to make it sound vaguely like a Biblical passage… <!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->

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