Yes. A perpetual license just means no fixed end date, not that it’s irrevocable or interminable.

You can probably get away with continuing to use ESXi free licenses even commercially, you just won’t have support. And at home, nothing is going to stop existing versions from working.

Incidentally, assuming I found the right license agreement: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/downloads/eula/universal_eula.pdf

It doesn’t actually say it’s perpetual. It only says “The term of this EULA begins on Delivery of the Software and continues until this EULA is terminated in accordance with this Section 9”, but that section only covers termination for cause or insolvency, there is no provision for termination at VMware’s discretion. So, while I’m not a lawyer, it definitely sounds like you can continue using ESXi free.

Actually, reading further, I think the applicable license is this one: https://www.vmware.com/vmware-general-terms.html

But that one has even less language about license term and termination. Although it does define “perpetual license” as “a license to the Software with a perpetual term”, again not irrevocable or interminable.

That one was posted by a spambot, which a lot of people have blocked.

No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don’t need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they’re still useful. Software UX polish-passes don’t make good marketing. You can’t seriously put “you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it” on a marketing campaign.

I can’t just run an extention cord out an open window.

This is exactly what my neighbor does in his apartment.

But he has a driveway, so it’s not like he’s running it over the sidewalk or anything.

They compensate you in the form of providing products like Bing for free. Same way that Facebook pays their bills by running ads.

Same thing they’re doing right now: ignoring the license.

It never was.

Top of the sidebar:

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Business rebrands aren’t technology news or articles.

Is it just bookmarks, or is it bookmarks and sync? I’d export your bookmarks as JSON or something and look through it, either with a text editor or some tool, and make sure there isn’t some enormously huge string, or one containing unsupported characters, that’s tripping something up somehow.

Or just sidestep the issue entirely and use “accelerated”, like they do in the article.

Gizmodo, and all the Gawker, G/O Media brands, have been trash for years. If I was in charge here, they’d be banned.

tl;dr:

The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin’s trajectory. According to the Diaconis model, precession causes the coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. Consequently, the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side as it started (i.e., ‘same-side bias’).

“Higher chance” being 50.77% to land on the same side it started from. But this varies by person; apparently some people introduce more precession than others. But even if you could figure out how to do it reliably, I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.

“Funding: my mom gave me the coins out of her car cupholder”

All title information on the house would be recorded and attached in the blockchain so when you go to sell your home, you can prove there aren’t any liens against the home

Don’t we already have state or local databases for stuff like houses and cars? How does the blockchain stuff add anything?

How is this tech-related?

Agreed. I subscribed here for “technology news and articles”, as per the community description.

Though strictly speaking, business decisions aren’t technology news, even if it’s a software company.

sites will have to verify the age of visitors, either by asking for government-issued documents or using biometric data, such as face scans, to estimate their age

Yeah, most sites are just going to block UK users. Dealing with personal data like that is a nightmare.

It’s not, but the top mod also runs a bot that automatically posts content from various news sites, probably based on keywords. And I’d bet that some of those keywords are Twitter and Facebook. So don’t expect them to follow their own rules.

tech·nol·o·gy
/tekˈnäləjē/
noun

• the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. “advances in computer technology”

• machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. “it will reduce the industry’s ability to spend money on new technology”

• the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

Some bozo changing the rules on his social media site is not scientific knowledge.

Why is the author suggesting government regulation should be involved here? Spamming and scamming is nothing new, at all. This is on the platforms to actually do a substantial job of moderating.

Good news, they already do! Artists can license their work under a permissive license like the Creative Commons CC0 license. If not specified, rights are reserved to the creator.

Yeah. Just because a tech company does something, that doesn’t make it technology news. Call me when there’s actual technologic development coming out.

Heck, you can almost do cold welding right here. If you have two very, very flat metal parts, and press them together hard, just with your hands, you can get them to stick together.

The manufacturer identifies an issue with a vehicle, and “recalls” it to one of their service centers to fix it. Usually this is some defect in design or a part that needs to be corrected.

Wait it out, or fix whatever is making it “laggy”, like a program using all the CPU time.

And OP can probably recover that data with standard recovery tools, if they haven’t continued using the PC. Or just redownload it, since recovery would take longer than two hours.

They just started testing it when I left a previous job. Having fast, reliable Internet access would be a game-changer for remote temporary/mobile sites. And when I say remote, I mean remote.