Yeah, try installing a game that requires WinG... I had a client come in recently trying to get an old game running on Windows 7. Only worked up as far as XP with tweaks, unfortunately.
Unless there's an advantage for me to learn GIMP (and no, price is not one of them, I don't give a damn what it costs), I'm sterring well clear.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a scenario:
Say you're at a client site and need to make some last-minute adjustments. As you were unaware of the need to change anything, you didn't bring any a laptop with you. You could d/l GIMP to one of their PCs right there onsite, make the mods needed, and wrap up the job without having to shuttle back and forth between your office....
This shit does not make us safer. It makes us more complacent, more willing to give up our freedoms just to hear the government say "there are no monsters in your closet".
That's the problem here, though... they're not saying "There are no more monsters in your closet." They're saying "A monster could jump out at any moment, and only *we* can keep you safe!"
.... and then they go out for a night of drinking, leaving you alone with your fears.
Actually, I wanna know exactly how they're assessing it. Can I challenge it? Can I find out what my "score" is? Is there anything they're not taking into account?
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But realistically, he took the whole open platforms and devices to really bad direction with the closeness of iOS and maybe upcoming Macs.
Apple shareholders would beg to differ.
What a coincidence! Standard Oil's shareholders said the same thing back in the day....
Color me leery when people start equating "makes lots of money for a limited number of rich people" with "doing the right thing."
That is the best example of educated people you can come up with?
Hear hear! They didn't even mention Asia Carrera once!
It's not the same at all. Texans choose to live in Texas.
Well, if you think you can manage it, get all the Aggies to move to Oklahoma... it'd raise the collective IQ of both states!
{I kid, of course...}
Looks like the stupid race (who has somehow managed to survive and even understand the universe) will have to make do on Earth.
None but a fool would put all their eggs in one basket.... and do you really want Mr. T after you?
1991 counts as recent in my book.
Yeah, try installing a game that requires WinG... I had a client come in recently trying to get an old game running on Windows 7. Only worked up as far as XP with tweaks, unfortunately.
I believe your premise is over-thought and overrated, and humbly suggest you collect more data before making said assumption.
Unless there's an advantage for me to learn GIMP (and no, price is not one of them, I don't give a damn what it costs), I'm sterring well clear.
Off the top of my head, I can think of a scenario:
Say you're at a client site and need to make some last-minute adjustments. As you were unaware of the need to change anything, you didn't bring any a laptop with you. You could d/l GIMP to one of their PCs right there onsite, make the mods needed, and wrap up the job without having to shuttle back and forth between your office....
Spending the day on the net isn't any better than spending the day to watch TV.
Better, maybe not. More interactive? Surely.
Other than that, what exactly is your solution, more welfare state nonsense? That really brings people out of poverty, you know!
J.K. Rowling just called. She'd like a word with you.
Um, what is that, a miniskirt, heels, and spare needles?
Consider the average Slashdotter's social profile, I'd bet it'd be a 50-year-old drag queen and a handful of Ex-Lax.
I'd suggest they redo the insurance so that both Wal-mart *and* the decedent's survivors get money. That'd make it a bit more palatable to me.
*secretly hoping you've seen the episode of the program to which I am making a reference.
Not only have I seen it, I showed it to my wife!
Uh, we are talking about Invasion Of The Samurai Sluts From Hell, right?
This shit does not make us safer. It makes us more complacent, more willing to give up our freedoms just to hear the government say "there are no monsters in your closet".
That's the problem here, though... they're not saying "There are no more monsters in your closet." They're saying "A monster could jump out at any moment, and only *we* can keep you safe!"
.... and then they go out for a night of drinking, leaving you alone with your fears.
When my wife and I go out to drink, we've found that avoiding the meat market is as simple as going to the nearest gay bar.
Percussive Maintenance is an art and a science...
Add me to the list, too.
I utterly detest Congress's choice of security theater over actual SECURITY, and refuse to fly until they stop playing pretend cop.
Laden or unladen?
Think of the great employment opportunities now that you know that anyone can be a "security professional!"
Well, I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night....
You get more for losing a thumb than a little finger, for instance.
I'm opposed to that idea...
So the machine can really only tell if you're lying or crazy.
It does a piss-poor job of determining the former..
Yeah, more and more I'm having to count on news agencies outside the US to find good reporting on news inside the US.
That, and the Fox News "We won the right to blatantly lie and call it news" SCOTUS case pretty much clenched it.
Actually, I wanna know exactly how they're assessing it. Can I challenge it? Can I find out what my "score" is? Is there anything they're not taking into account?
It was an app that you had to install voluntarily.
Voluntarily, for now....
.... laid by battery hens...
AA, AAA, C-cell or D-cell? 9 volt? Ni-Cad? Lithium-ion?
Don't keep us in suspense!
Is a more-than-two-party system better? I don't see evidence of that when looking at other countries.
I'd like to think that it'd give lobbyists fits. Right now, they only have to bribe *two* candidates...