I was thinking the same thing about editors, maybe they would have to roll dream weaver and flash into the same beast, but they could definitely maintain the dominant position in the editor market.
Also, TFA talks about conflict within MS because they have the browser team and the silverlight team, but I don't see why silverlight can't be rolled into the browser as the ie10 implementation of the canvas tag. Surely Silverlight is capable of providing everything that html5 canvas does plus more. (not that I have seen silverlight in action, but still)
Fom that point of view, it is the perfect oportunity to embrace, extend and extinguish that I would have expected Microsoft to jump at. I am very surprised they are not supporting it. Ooops. maybe I should have kept that thought to myself...
By reading this post you acknowledge that the above paragraph is entirely my idea and if you do produce a product that subverts html5 by adding additional features to the canvas or any other html5 element, you will compensate me with your entire business. Yep, you sign the whole lot over to me. Yes I'm looking at you MS
In my experience, pair programmers are only more efficient than each programmer working on their own when both programmers are bad.
That's a bit of a generalisation. I used to work in a small shop, primarily with one other developer plus the UI design and management bods. This dev and I used to work alone a lot, but on occasion we would pair up, particulary when we were starting something new. The rate that we turned out code was staggering compared to dividing the work and going it alone. Also, the code was usually highly optimized and error free. I put it down to having not only the two sets of eyes, but also the brains of two highly experienced engineers each thinking about two or three different aspects of what a given piece of code is trying to do.
This situation is also a lot of fun if you do it with someone you can work and communicate well with. You basically have a conversation about everything you are trying to do and watch the code morph into a simple, elegant and powerful solution in a time frame that even the most amazing code guru could not achieve. That is an absolute hoot if you appreciate good code more than ego maintenance.
Which brings me to my point. Perhaps the fact that you think that pair programming is only good for bad programmers is that you are a one of those developers that likes to be right, will argue a position where this is no right answer as if everything is absolute and tends to choose obscure solutions just to appear smart and perhaps ensure job security. The industry is full of those.
They make aweful pair programmers and aweful programmers in general, IMO. Being stuck with maintaining the code of a solo genious sucks big time, not because I find it hard to understand what they have done, but more because I have trouble understanding why they have done it the way they have. Pair programmed code is by it's nature easier to understand and thus maintain because it benefits from the perspective of two authors.
Maintenance and patching are of course a waste of time in pairs, but for new code it is excellent.
Design costs maybe higher when you are doing something new. Materials can be a lot cheaper. Rendered straw bales are very cheap, provide excellent inulation, are less prone to rodent and termit infestation than timber or brick constructions, and are highly resistant to fire. Surprising, but true.
Oh and I haven't actually lived in the tropics, but the point is that you look at the site for each dwelling and maximise what is available. Live in the middle of a desert? Use photovoltaic solar or even better solar thermal power generation.
Even highrise blocks can be made very efficient by running water pumps cool the building throughout the day and then use the stored heat to warm the building at night. A friend of mine just had a job retrofitting that to a 30 story building and the cost of the job was covered in energy savings in the first year. Highrise also makes for wind tunnels - why don't we use that energy more? My sister works in a 10 story building that generates more power than it consumes, recycles water and in a heat wave a couple of years ago when the temperature was around 40C for a few days, her office was a pleasant 21C with no air conditioning while my office with traditional airconditioning was stifling.
All of these things are cheap compared to other plant costs, the only thing is you really need to look at each case individually rather than have consistant off the shelf solutions, you even need to look at the relationships between you and your neighbours in a cooperative sense and the PHB in most people can't cope with that.
From my personal experience, a low emissions lifestyle can make for a much higher standard of living than a high emissions one. Good housing design is a good start, using passive solar desing techniques to make comfortable living spaces which don't require as much fuel.
When I was in my teens I lived on the verge of a rainforest with a small generator powered by the creek which fed us and about 10 other houses. We had stereo, TV, lighting and a computer (Amstrad CPC 464 it was), all of those cons, and a beautiful setting to boot. My standard of living was much higher than any I have experienced since.
Often higher efficiency can be achieved with lower complexity and a subtle shift of focus.
Scientific American is wrong and by the end of this summer I'll have an open source computer model that explains why.
Making statements like that silly. Your computer program modelling something within your narrow paradigm will be able prove absolutely that an article in a magazine is wrong? Give me a break.
You can make a model to explain just about any point you are trying to make but unless it takes into account the flies buzzing around the bullshit ~150 kms from where I am sitting, it will never be an accurate representation of reality and to assert that it is is pure arrogance.
Ten years to break it, probably twenty to fix it, and meanwhile naturapaths and other confidence tricksters are thriving and making their fortunes from not only the sick but now taxpayer subsidised insurance companies.
Hhhhmmm. Naturopaths are a lot like doctors. There are those that are really good at what they do, then there are those who see patients as a way of making money. The "take this script and have a lie down" sort. So I assume by "confidence trickster" you mean the qualified doctors who unthinkingly prescribe the drugs the companies push? Yeah, I hate that they are government subsidised too.
I studied shiatsu and a major part of our ethics class involved understanding when we can treat someone and when we can't, or when someone else can provide more effective treatment. We were encouraged to meet practitioners of all forms of medicine in our area and know who to refer people to if we couldn't help. Some things, for example feeling potential tumours in soft tissue, would mean immediate stop work, bring them back and send them to a doctor. Other things might involve sending them to an Osteopath, for example, or a good kinesiologist.
I have always found the "complimentary medicinal practices are all mumbo jumbo" attitude disburbing. There are things that work medicinally that we know work but we don't fully understand why in a scientific sense. Chicken soup for treating a cold, for example. That's a really old one, but only recently have we understood the anti-viral nature of a chicken stock.
Trouble is that big pharma runs the whole industry, so doctors have a massive incentive to not do there jobs appropriately, so many will prescribe anti biotics *just in case* you have a secondary infection, thus killing gut flora you will need to fully recover, and tell you to go to bed while neglecting to tell you that garlic is a good enough antibiotic to deal with most secondary infections, and that chicken is anti-viral. (BTW, after a dose of anti-biotics, plain yoghurt is really good.)
These are the quacks, they are the confidence tricksters. Occasionally you get a doctor who bothers to understand how diet can effect health, or how stretching in particular ways can relieve some types of headaches, but sadly so many are just in it for the money and the sense of authority that comes with being a doctor.
It's a shame doctors aren't given similar ethics ethical training. It would be great if they referred people with particular types of asthma to someone who can assist with posture rather than relying on drugs. Unfortunately doctors are trained to think they are the authority on everything and always know best while a good practitioner of complimentary medicine will freely admit when they don't know.
They have been referred to as part of the "axis of evil" by that insane cowboy the US used to call president. The US has a lot of nukes and the ability to deliver them and while the current president seems peaceful enough, they know that the US system is inherently unstable and another hawkish nutjob could be in the white house in 4 to 8 years.
They also are on bad terms with Isreal, along with every other country in the region. Isreal has more than enough nukes to wipe them out. There is no nuclear power in the region on their side and they feel threatened. Understandably too.
Isreal currently massacres Palestinians, has started wars with it's neighbours and has no problem launching attacks across borders when ever they want, for example into Lebanon. Basically, Iran has a nuclear power in their region which has shown time and again it has little respect for international law or vborders of other countries, who is allied with a super power which thinks it is international law and immune from prosecution and has little respect for other countries soverignty. No wonder they are frightened and angry.
So they figure that if they have nukes, they can hopefully make Isreal think twice before commit the next installment in the genocide and territory building they appear to be attempting. They can't take on the US, but they can put Isreal in check, or at least make themselves heard and taken seriously.
They know full well that nukes are only useful as a deterent. They also seem to think that the Middle East needs a balance of power. I would actually have more concern about some right wing Isreali nutjob starting a nuclear war than Iran.
This is an unpopular view among many in the west, I know, but attempting to understand their fears can lead to peace, which is what most of us want on both sides.
As if they'd say anything else. Anyway, if he shouldn't be a paramedic, why did they hire him???
For the same reasons a private company would hire him. He would have to pass his training and an interview process. I'm sure that private or public control would have little impact on whether this fuck knuckle would have been weeded out.
Captains of oil tankers have been known to get pissed and cause oil spills, private traders have brought world economies to their knees, deliberate chemical spills in ground water, fast food that causes diabetes and obesity being pushed on kids in such a way that eating it's a social norm, years of big tobacco, etc etc etc. Thank you private enterprise and the free market!!!
With private enterprise you risk the side effects of greed and incompetence. At least with democratic governments the greed part is largely eliminated. (except of course when private enterprise has undue influence over government....)
Because government bureaucracies are designed to follow "process" designed by politically-influenced dead-heads who can't find productive work in the private sector. And that "process" never includes doing the best job possible for a reasonable price; it's all about "fairness" and the rice bowl.
Government bureaucracies and coporate entities are actually very similar when it comes to following process. Especially when the law and peoples lives are at stake.
The difference between them is motivation. The motivation of business is profit, pure and simple. Very occasionally that involves the best job at a low price, but all too often it involves the cheapest job at the highest price you can get away with plus marketing and spin. The profit motive encourages risk taking. It encourages cutting corners.
I'm not saying public control is always better than private. I'm just saying that they each have their short comings and each have their place and comparing US health care with Australia or the UK shows that when it comes to health care across society, public does better because public health is motivated by people not losing their jobs at the next election rather than profit.
And your knee jerk "this guy is a dick head therefore public health sux" argument still looks thoughtless - like you really didn't think it through or are ignorant of how business and government really work. You rabid capitalists are as bad as rabid socialists.
This story has nothing to do with government funding or otherwise. There's even a quote from an NHS official saying this guy shouldn't be a paramedic.
Can you please explain to how the "this individual is a dick head therefore government healthcare sucks" argument actually works? I mean explain it so it makes sense and so you don't wind up looking even stupider?
Exactly. I would ask the inverse rhetorical question: "Why do you actually have to be connected to the net to listen to music? Download, store and play on demand is really the future."
Higher speed connections, cheaper and physically smaller solid state storage. Downloading with the ability to resume if the cable gets pulled or you go through a long tunnel. It's much better than having to be always online, IMO.
I don't mind if you buy Macs, hey that's your problem if you want to spend 1.5x what the machine is worth for a badge, and I run Linux so the malware isn't a problem. No, the reason I whine about mac fanbois is that you're always coming on to me.
I don't really want to use jquery, but I have ben taking the approach of targeting firefox and safari and then fixing ie6 where I need to. Still far to much work to have to do on the presentation when the real problems to solve are business problems on the server side.
We're still making fugly hacks. I'm building a site for a fleelance media producer and the spec is "it should look great in all browsers". Stupid browser detects to pick the stupid stylesheet hacks for ie6 which read like a joke in that f'n language. Flash isn't around for mobile devices so it has to be javascript, css and markup. That combination is bad enough without ie6 having to lay turds everywhere.
I spend 90% of the time on graphics and 10% on the actual system. Thanks ms and in particular, thanks ie6....!
I have lived with depression, I know others who have. People who throw themselves off public bridges into traffic - or even threaten to - are not simply depressed, they are selfish, inconsiderate and rude. I have said similar things to someone who was threatening to top themselves and it's amazing how when you point that out to a self obsessed fuckwit in clear terms, they suddenly look a bit embarrassed and calm down.
BTW, for the record I think the same thing about people who point guns at police to be shot dead rather than top themselves in private, and people who jump in front of trains are disgusting. It is so incredibly inconsiderate and rude.
If you must do it, realise that you are being a total fuckwit to anyone who cares about you and do it in such a way as to cause the minimum inconvenience. Otherwise, I see no problem with it being a well oiled shovel 'em up and bury them in the dump job. Don't apologise for them - spread the word that people who do this shit are scum.
People with terminal illnesses who chose to go at there own time excluded, of course.
You may have just come from 2005 but right here in 2009 we have a much better Ubuntu that before.
I haven't actually upgraded to 9.04 (haven't been using the notebook) but suspend is definitely broken for me in 8.10 - it never wakes up. I get a BSoaVS (black screen of a vegitative state). So it could be he came from March 2009 with that comment, not 2005. Hardly trolling, unless you were referring to your own post.
I think it would be excellent to have this as general policy. A) The world is getting overpopulated. B) People that top themselves or threaten to, especially in public settings, are about as selfish as you'll find anywhere.
They should have removed the cushoins and brought in a bob cat, garbage truck and street sweeper. What's loyalty to the state got to do with anything? The guy was a whiney toss pot.
See, that's because you got a 63 bit processor. The problem with 63 bit processors is you have no end of bizaar problems trying to run modern 64 bit, or even 32 bit software and that's why you save the $8. Myself, I'd spend the extra $8 on 64 bit.:-P
Funnily enough, this is the second reply to this story by someone with a -1 bug. Someone else mentioned their old 485DX33 system.
Or to put it another way, isn't the whole point of TFA to spend less on a worthy gaming rig? How on earth does that turn in to an excuse to flop out your more expensive penis extension?
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I was thinking the same thing about editors, maybe they would have to roll dream weaver and flash into the same beast, but they could definitely maintain the dominant position in the editor market.
Also, TFA talks about conflict within MS because they have the browser team and the silverlight team, but I don't see why silverlight can't be rolled into the browser as the ie10 implementation of the canvas tag. Surely Silverlight is capable of providing everything that html5 canvas does plus more. (not that I have seen silverlight in action, but still)
Fom that point of view, it is the perfect oportunity to embrace, extend and extinguish that I would have expected Microsoft to jump at. I am very surprised they are not supporting it. Ooops. maybe I should have kept that thought to myself...
By reading this post you acknowledge that the above paragraph is entirely my idea and if you do produce a product that subverts html5 by adding additional features to the canvas or any other html5 element, you will compensate me with your entire business. Yep, you sign the whole lot over to me. Yes I'm looking at you MS
That's a bit of a generalisation. I used to work in a small shop, primarily with one other developer plus the UI design and management bods. This dev and I used to work alone a lot, but on occasion we would pair up, particulary when we were starting something new. The rate that we turned out code was staggering compared to dividing the work and going it alone. Also, the code was usually highly optimized and error free. I put it down to having not only the two sets of eyes, but also the brains of two highly experienced engineers each thinking about two or three different aspects of what a given piece of code is trying to do.
This situation is also a lot of fun if you do it with someone you can work and communicate well with. You basically have a conversation about everything you are trying to do and watch the code morph into a simple, elegant and powerful solution in a time frame that even the most amazing code guru could not achieve. That is an absolute hoot if you appreciate good code more than ego maintenance.
Which brings me to my point. Perhaps the fact that you think that pair programming is only good for bad programmers is that you are a one of those developers that likes to be right, will argue a position where this is no right answer as if everything is absolute and tends to choose obscure solutions just to appear smart and perhaps ensure job security. The industry is full of those.
They make aweful pair programmers and aweful programmers in general, IMO. Being stuck with maintaining the code of a solo genious sucks big time, not because I find it hard to understand what they have done, but more because I have trouble understanding why they have done it the way they have. Pair programmed code is by it's nature easier to understand and thus maintain because it benefits from the perspective of two authors.
Maintenance and patching are of course a waste of time in pairs, but for new code it is excellent.
Design costs maybe higher when you are doing something new. Materials can be a lot cheaper. Rendered straw bales are very cheap, provide excellent inulation, are less prone to rodent and termit infestation than timber or brick constructions, and are highly resistant to fire. Surprising, but true.
Oh and I haven't actually lived in the tropics, but the point is that you look at the site for each dwelling and maximise what is available. Live in the middle of a desert? Use photovoltaic solar or even better solar thermal power generation.
Even highrise blocks can be made very efficient by running water pumps cool the building throughout the day and then use the stored heat to warm the building at night. A friend of mine just had a job retrofitting that to a 30 story building and the cost of the job was covered in energy savings in the first year. Highrise also makes for wind tunnels - why don't we use that energy more? My sister works in a 10 story building that generates more power than it consumes, recycles water and in a heat wave a couple of years ago when the temperature was around 40C for a few days, her office was a pleasant 21C with no air conditioning while my office with traditional airconditioning was stifling.
All of these things are cheap compared to other plant costs, the only thing is you really need to look at each case individually rather than have consistant off the shelf solutions, you even need to look at the relationships between you and your neighbours in a cooperative sense and the PHB in most people can't cope with that.
From my personal experience, a low emissions lifestyle can make for a much higher standard of living than a high emissions one. Good housing design is a good start, using passive solar desing techniques to make comfortable living spaces which don't require as much fuel.
When I was in my teens I lived on the verge of a rainforest with a small generator powered by the creek which fed us and about 10 other houses. We had stereo, TV, lighting and a computer (Amstrad CPC 464 it was), all of those cons, and a beautiful setting to boot. My standard of living was much higher than any I have experienced since.
Often higher efficiency can be achieved with lower complexity and a subtle shift of focus.
Making statements like that silly. Your computer program modelling something within your narrow paradigm will be able prove absolutely that an article in a magazine is wrong? Give me a break.
You can make a model to explain just about any point you are trying to make but unless it takes into account the flies buzzing around the bullshit ~150 kms from where I am sitting, it will never be an accurate representation of reality and to assert that it is is pure arrogance.
Hhhhmmm. Naturopaths are a lot like doctors. There are those that are really good at what they do, then there are those who see patients as a way of making money. The "take this script and have a lie down" sort. So I assume by "confidence trickster" you mean the qualified doctors who unthinkingly prescribe the drugs the companies push? Yeah, I hate that they are government subsidised too.
I studied shiatsu and a major part of our ethics class involved understanding when we can treat someone and when we can't, or when someone else can provide more effective treatment. We were encouraged to meet practitioners of all forms of medicine in our area and know who to refer people to if we couldn't help. Some things, for example feeling potential tumours in soft tissue, would mean immediate stop work, bring them back and send them to a doctor. Other things might involve sending them to an Osteopath, for example, or a good kinesiologist.
I have always found the "complimentary medicinal practices are all mumbo jumbo" attitude disburbing. There are things that work medicinally that we know work but we don't fully understand why in a scientific sense. Chicken soup for treating a cold, for example. That's a really old one, but only recently have we understood the anti-viral nature of a chicken stock.
Trouble is that big pharma runs the whole industry, so doctors have a massive incentive to not do there jobs appropriately, so many will prescribe anti biotics *just in case* you have a secondary infection, thus killing gut flora you will need to fully recover, and tell you to go to bed while neglecting to tell you that garlic is a good enough antibiotic to deal with most secondary infections, and that chicken is anti-viral. (BTW, after a dose of anti-biotics, plain yoghurt is really good.)
These are the quacks, they are the confidence tricksters. Occasionally you get a doctor who bothers to understand how diet can effect health, or how stretching in particular ways can relieve some types of headaches, but sadly so many are just in it for the money and the sense of authority that comes with being a doctor.
It's a shame doctors aren't given similar ethics ethical training. It would be great if they referred people with particular types of asthma to someone who can assist with posture rather than relying on drugs. Unfortunately doctors are trained to think they are the authority on everything and always know best while a good practitioner of complimentary medicine will freely admit when they don't know.
They have been referred to as part of the "axis of evil" by that insane cowboy the US used to call president. The US has a lot of nukes and the ability to deliver them and while the current president seems peaceful enough, they know that the US system is inherently unstable and another hawkish nutjob could be in the white house in 4 to 8 years.
They also are on bad terms with Isreal, along with every other country in the region. Isreal has more than enough nukes to wipe them out. There is no nuclear power in the region on their side and they feel threatened. Understandably too.
Isreal currently massacres Palestinians, has started wars with it's neighbours and has no problem launching attacks across borders when ever they want, for example into Lebanon. Basically, Iran has a nuclear power in their region which has shown time and again it has little respect for international law or vborders of other countries, who is allied with a super power which thinks it is international law and immune from prosecution and has little respect for other countries soverignty. No wonder they are frightened and angry.
So they figure that if they have nukes, they can hopefully make Isreal think twice before commit the next installment in the genocide and territory building they appear to be attempting. They can't take on the US, but they can put Isreal in check, or at least make themselves heard and taken seriously.
They know full well that nukes are only useful as a deterent. They also seem to think that the Middle East needs a balance of power. I would actually have more concern about some right wing Isreali nutjob starting a nuclear war than Iran.
This is an unpopular view among many in the west, I know, but attempting to understand their fears can lead to peace, which is what most of us want on both sides.
If the US went in with nukes every time an election was stolen, it would have self destructed around the turn of the century.
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Ummm... the rest of the world begs to differ...
As if they'd say anything else. Anyway, if he shouldn't be a paramedic, why did they hire him???
For the same reasons a private company would hire him. He would have to pass his training and an interview process. I'm sure that private or public control would have little impact on whether this fuck knuckle would have been weeded out.
Captains of oil tankers have been known to get pissed and cause oil spills, private traders have brought world economies to their knees, deliberate chemical spills in ground water, fast food that causes diabetes and obesity being pushed on kids in such a way that eating it's a social norm, years of big tobacco, etc etc etc. Thank you private enterprise and the free market!!!
With private enterprise you risk the side effects of greed and incompetence. At least with democratic governments the greed part is largely eliminated. (except of course when private enterprise has undue influence over government....)
Because government bureaucracies are designed to follow "process" designed by politically-influenced dead-heads who can't find productive work in the private sector. And that "process" never includes doing the best job possible for a reasonable price; it's all about "fairness" and the rice bowl.
Government bureaucracies and coporate entities are actually very similar when it comes to following process. Especially when the law and peoples lives are at stake.
The difference between them is motivation. The motivation of business is profit, pure and simple. Very occasionally that involves the best job at a low price, but all too often it involves the cheapest job at the highest price you can get away with plus marketing and spin. The profit motive encourages risk taking. It encourages cutting corners.
I'm not saying public control is always better than private. I'm just saying that they each have their short comings and each have their place and comparing US health care with Australia or the UK shows that when it comes to health care across society, public does better because public health is motivated by people not losing their jobs at the next election rather than profit.
And your knee jerk "this guy is a dick head therefore public health sux" argument still looks thoughtless - like you really didn't think it through or are ignorant of how business and government really work. You rabid capitalists are as bad as rabid socialists.
This story has nothing to do with government funding or otherwise. There's even a quote from an NHS official saying this guy shouldn't be a paramedic.
Can you please explain to how the "this individual is a dick head therefore government healthcare sucks" argument actually works? I mean explain it so it makes sense and so you don't wind up looking even stupider?
Didn't think so.p>
Yep. I reckon we need a "-5 SPAM moderation".
Exactly. I would ask the inverse rhetorical question: "Why do you actually have to be connected to the net to listen to music? Download, store and play on demand is really the future."
Higher speed connections, cheaper and physically smaller solid state storage. Downloading with the ability to resume if the cable gets pulled or you go through a long tunnel. It's much better than having to be always online, IMO.
File under fad that fades.
I have cola in my nose.
First time I have laughed out loud at this site for yonks.
I don't mind if you buy Macs, hey that's your problem if you want to spend 1.5x what the machine is worth for a badge, and I run Linux so the malware isn't a problem. No, the reason I whine about mac fanbois is that you're always coming on to me.
I don't really want to use jquery, but I have ben taking the approach of targeting firefox and safari and then fixing ie6 where I need to. Still far to much work to have to do on the presentation when the real problems to solve are business problems on the server side.
Not if it's a media site with no point other than displaying and playing samples.
We're still making fugly hacks. I'm building a site for a fleelance media producer and the spec is "it should look great in all browsers". Stupid browser detects to pick the stupid stylesheet hacks for ie6 which read like a joke in that f'n language. Flash isn't around for mobile devices so it has to be javascript, css and markup. That combination is bad enough without ie6 having to lay turds everywhere.
I spend 90% of the time on graphics and 10% on the actual system. Thanks ms and in particular, thanks ie6....!
I just hope she doesn't know about lynx...
Agewisely speaking, you're about 20 years off.
I have lived with depression, I know others who have. People who throw themselves off public bridges into traffic - or even threaten to - are not simply depressed, they are selfish, inconsiderate and rude. I have said similar things to someone who was threatening to top themselves and it's amazing how when you point that out to a self obsessed fuckwit in clear terms, they suddenly look a bit embarrassed and calm down.
BTW, for the record I think the same thing about people who point guns at police to be shot dead rather than top themselves in private, and people who jump in front of trains are disgusting. It is so incredibly inconsiderate and rude.
If you must do it, realise that you are being a total fuckwit to anyone who cares about you and do it in such a way as to cause the minimum inconvenience. Otherwise, I see no problem with it being a well oiled shovel 'em up and bury them in the dump job. Don't apologise for them - spread the word that people who do this shit are scum.
People with terminal illnesses who chose to go at there own time excluded, of course.
Google and Canonical should merge and release that to the public at a quarter year offset from the traditional Ubuntu.
Goobuntu 10.01 "Gooey Gnu" beta.
I haven't actually upgraded to 9.04 (haven't been using the notebook) but suspend is definitely broken for me in 8.10 - it never wakes up. I get a BSoaVS (black screen of a vegitative state). So it could be he came from March 2009 with that comment, not 2005. Hardly trolling, unless you were referring to your own post.
I think it would be excellent to have this as general policy. A) The world is getting overpopulated. B) People that top themselves or threaten to, especially in public settings, are about as selfish as you'll find anywhere.
They should have removed the cushoins and brought in a bob cat, garbage truck and street sweeper. What's loyalty to the state got to do with anything? The guy was a whiney toss pot.
See, that's because you got a 63 bit processor. The problem with 63 bit processors is you have no end of bizaar problems trying to run modern 64 bit, or even 32 bit software and that's why you save the $8. Myself, I'd spend the extra $8 on 64 bit. :-P
Funnily enough, this is the second reply to this story by someone with a -1 bug. Someone else mentioned their old 485DX33 system.
Teeheehee! I've got a Porsche
Or to put it another way, isn't the whole point of TFA to spend less on a worthy gaming rig? How on earth does that turn in to an excuse to flop out your more expensive penis extension?
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So how come the West lost in Iraq?