Okay, so if Linux is really so much better than Windows, why has Linux desktop marketshare stayed around 1% while Mac desktop marketshare has increased dramatically (~10% -> 20%) in the past 5 years?
The codfish lays a thousand eggs, the little hen just one.
But the codfish never cackles to tell us what he's done.
So we scorn the mighty codfish, while the little hen we prize.
Which surely goes to tell you that it pays to advertise.
You really must be indigent to get a free lawyer and those usually aren't that good.
No law requires you to make bail. Stay in jail, and presto you don't have a job.
Don't like that free lawyer? Then demand your right to a speedy trial instead of taking the free lawyer's advice. The judge must by law respect that you and your free lawyer disagree. If you insist on the speedy trial the public defender doesn't have time to schedule you (only a few of their lawyers are qualified to actually take a case to trial) so nine times out of ten the jude will have to give you a much better lawyer from the pro bono pool.
And since the District Attorney's office won't have time to prepare their case, you stand a better chance of winning, even if you are guilty.
Don't feel comfortable taking your chances? Then go for a plea pardon.
But if you're in California, and you go for the plea bargain, know that California law doesn't allow the District Attorney to offer you a plea bargain if he has a reasonable expectation of winning at trial.
My computers change their own clocks (except the ones in my datacenter working on UTC). My tablet and phone (okay, they're really computers) change their own clocks. My television sets, cable-company supplied DVRs, my old VCR (synching off a tv station), and even of my two clock radios, change their own time.
My cheap Timex watch changes it's time with one press of one button (because it manages two time zones, one of which I keep set to DST). That leaves one of my clock radios, my car radio, and my microwave oven. And I'm willing to bet that the next time I buy them, they'll do it, too.
A better solution is not night-shifts (very damaging to longevity), but staggered work-days, with some starting at 7, some at 8, some at 9. That way there are fewer people trying to reach their destination at the same time of day. Shorter work-days would result in many people having slightly less pay, however they would have more leisure hours, and overall unemployment would go down.
Businesses, people, and governments all got together the last time the Olympics were held in Los Angeles, and, guess what? It worked. Traffic was less congested than normal.
Don't know what it has to do with Daylight Savings Time, though.
Why don't we just go to DST, like we just did...and fucking leave it there from now on??
Many in the rural U.S., where many kids need to be on the schoolbus before 7am, would argue that it's harder for kids to get up and go to school when it's still quite dark. Still others would argue that it's dangerous for kids to wait at schoolbus stops in the dark.
do you really think those people who commute to work via helicopter care about their fuel usage or the noise pollution they create on the ground, or waking people up in the middle of the night? By golly, they can afford that helicopter, and can usually count on getting a helipad approved wherever they want one
My cousin's father-in-law actually did this, in the 60s. Waterfront home in Miami Beach, office in a building he owned in Jacksonville (both in Florida, over 300 miles apart). Copter took off from his backyard, landed on top of his office building.
In the 60s.
He did other things, too. Check out Wikipedia article on Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
You probably wrote a capital A followed by a capital I. But it's not easy to tell the difference, so I've just gone ahead and trademarked the name Infallable Al as in short for Albert or Alabama. Now I'm on my way to Alabama to incorporate a new city, where we'll have a law: Only cars driven by Infallable Al will be allowed in Infallable, Alabama.
It's not allowed to go through a red light when there's a scamera at that light. It's not allowed to go above a certain speed when there's a scamera. Tickets for these things aren't given to the driver, they're given to the car or sent by mail to the car's owner.
Not in California. In California if the photo taken by the camera doesn't match the photo on the Drivers' License of the person identified in the registration document (as defined by the license plate information), then the registered owner gets a letter from a company in Arizona asking him/her to identify the driver. Says specifically in the letter not an admission of guilt. And of course if the registered owner is the driver, well then of course Federal law says you don't have to incriminate yourself, so you don't have to respond.
If the registered owner doesn't respond, no one gets a ticket. Well at least not so far, two years and counting:)
When the first TLDs were created,.org was meant to be used by non-profit organizations only. That requirement was dropped a long time ago, though some of us still like to use our.org domains for sites that at least obey it's spirit.
The years were 1978-1979; I was living in Foster City, CA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California ) and running a small TRS-80 aftermarket company from my home. I also run The fastest board in the west, a single phone line 300 baud BBS, on a TRS-80 Model 1 with an expansion interface, and an acoustic modem (with a simple relay-based device using one of those suction cup microphones to know when the phone was ringing, and control the switch-hook to answer).
Fastest? Perhaps by the standards of the day. I bought the software from the same guy who designed it for CompuServe Information Service ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe ). It was written in TRS-80 Disk BASIC, and I rewrote it to use disk buffers to store all the strings (some oldtimers will know what I mean), so it never paused for string reorganization, as many early TRS-80 BASIC programs did.
Networking? What networking? Not yet in those days.
I'm not sure which is harder to understand, that someone owns you, or that Microsoft thinks anyone will want this on a general purpose home or business computer.
No, it's not Vista 2.x or 3.x, it's Windows 3.1 for five-year-olds.
sin just means "disobedience of God's law" or however you want to phrase it.
sin means without. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/sin Go ahead and mod me funny or anything else if you wan to, but I believe this to be the derivation of the english language word: to be without the presence of God.
Southwest guy chuckles and said "you just handed your credit card to a 19 year old girl who probably has a crack head biker boyfriend waiting behind the restaurant to take your credit card number. Do you feel at risk?"
I've had cc info stolen a few times in my life. Each time the card info was used in a card-present transaction; once for several high-value card present transactions within a few miles of my residence, within an hour.
Which means the card info was copied off my physical card.
Don't forget that in most states those waitresses are making much less than minimum wage.
That doesn't affect the veracity of the article. If Best Buy and other transactional retailers complain about it, but it's not true, the article is still accurate.
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Okay, so if Linux is really so much better than Windows, why has Linux desktop marketshare stayed around 1% while Mac desktop marketshare has increased dramatically (~10% -> 20%) in the past 5 years?
The codfish lays a thousand eggs, the little hen just one.
But the codfish never cackles to tell us what he's done.
So we scorn the mighty codfish, while the little hen we prize.
Which surely goes to tell you that it pays to advertise.
At what point IS there enough evidence that the change is significant enough to actually DO something about?
And just what is it you suggest we do about it?
You really must be indigent to get a free lawyer and those usually aren't that good.
No law requires you to make bail. Stay in jail, and presto you don't have a job.
Don't like that free lawyer? Then demand your right to a speedy trial instead of taking the free lawyer's advice. The judge must by law respect that you and your free lawyer disagree. If you insist on the speedy trial the public defender doesn't have time to schedule you (only a few of their lawyers are qualified to actually take a case to trial) so nine times out of ten the jude will have to give you a much better lawyer from the pro bono pool.
And since the District Attorney's office won't have time to prepare their case, you stand a better chance of winning, even if you are guilty.
Don't feel comfortable taking your chances? Then go for a plea pardon.
But if you're in California, and you go for the plea bargain, know that California law doesn't allow the District Attorney to offer you a plea bargain if he has a reasonable expectation of winning at trial.
Take you choice, but I like Susan's idea.
The US has one of the highest incarcination rates in the country.
Well of course it does. The US is the country.
It does, and it did, during the last Olympics held in LA. See my previous post on the subject.
There will be a higher percentage of car crashes tomorrow due to people being awake an hour earlier.
In fact there were a bunch of school bus crashes Monday, across the U.S. Even a fatality or two. Just sayin'.
one involves altering simple-to-change clocks.
My computers change their own clocks (except the ones in my datacenter working on UTC). My tablet and phone (okay, they're really computers) change their own clocks. My television sets, cable-company supplied DVRs, my old VCR (synching off a tv station), and even of my two clock radios, change their own time.
My cheap Timex watch changes it's time with one press of one button (because it manages two time zones, one of which I keep set to DST). That leaves one of my clock radios, my car radio, and my microwave oven. And I'm willing to bet that the next time I buy them, they'll do it, too.
A better solution is not night-shifts (very damaging to longevity), but staggered work-days, with some starting at 7, some at 8, some at 9. That way there are fewer people trying to reach their destination at the same time of day. Shorter work-days would result in many people having slightly less pay, however they would have more leisure hours, and overall unemployment would go down.
Businesses, people, and governments all got together the last time the Olympics were held in Los Angeles, and, guess what? It worked. Traffic was less congested than normal.
Don't know what it has to do with Daylight Savings Time, though.
Why don't we just go to DST, like we just did...and fucking leave it there from now on??
Many in the rural U.S., where many kids need to be on the schoolbus before 7am, would argue that it's harder for kids to get up and go to school when it's still quite dark. Still others would argue that it's dangerous for kids to wait at schoolbus stops in the dark.
do you really think those people who commute to work via helicopter care about their fuel usage or the noise pollution they create on the ground, or waking people up in the middle of the night? By golly, they can afford that helicopter, and can usually count on getting a helipad approved wherever they want one
My cousin's father-in-law actually did this, in the 60s. Waterfront home in Miami Beach, office in a building he owned in Jacksonville (both in Florida, over 300 miles apart). Copter took off from his backyard, landed on top of his office building.
In the 60s.
He did other things, too. Check out Wikipedia article on Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
And with the invention of the "stack em and rack em" automated garages, this could really solve some downtown problems.
Back in the 1960s (yeah, I'm old) I saw my first such garage on New York City's 42nd street; west of 8th Avenue. Never trusted my car to it, though.
Would Infallable Al (see my post above) trust Otto the automated Garage? Could I program him not to, or would he have is own personality?
infallable AI
You probably wrote a capital A followed by a capital I. But it's not easy to tell the difference, so I've just gone ahead and trademarked the name Infallable Al as in short for Albert or Alabama. Now I'm on my way to Alabama to incorporate a new city, where we'll have a law: Only cars driven by Infallable Al will be allowed in Infallable, Alabama.
It's not allowed to go through a red light when there's a scamera at that light. It's not allowed to go above a certain speed when there's a scamera. Tickets for these things aren't given to the driver, they're given to the car or sent by mail to the car's owner.
Not in California. In California if the photo taken by the camera doesn't match the photo on the Drivers' License of the person identified in the registration document (as defined by the license plate information), then the registered owner gets a letter from a company in Arizona asking him/her to identify the driver. Says specifically in the letter not an admission of guilt. And of course if the registered owner is the driver, well then of course Federal law says you don't have to incriminate yourself, so you don't have to respond.
If the registered owner doesn't respond, no one gets a ticket. Well at least not so far, two years and counting :)
Personally i think the net is just gonna end up more and more corrupted until we have to go to a darknet just to get back what we have.
I am the US Gov'ment and I invented the 'net. So I can do what I want with it. If you don't like it, go invent your own.
RFP? Is that a Rearward Facing Penis? I'd like to see that.
Felines. That's how they spray their territory.
When the first TLDs were created, .org was meant to be used by non-profit organizations only. That requirement was dropped a long time ago, though some of us still like to use our .org domains for sites that at least obey it's spirit.
Perhaps you're thinking of .gov.
My servers are nameless. Really.
See http://namelessnet.net/
The years were 1978-1979; I was living in Foster City, CA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California ) and running a small TRS-80 aftermarket company from my home. I also run The fastest board in the west, a single phone line 300 baud BBS, on a TRS-80 Model 1 with an expansion interface, and an acoustic modem (with a simple relay-based device using one of those suction cup microphones to know when the phone was ringing, and control the switch-hook to answer).
Fastest? Perhaps by the standards of the day. I bought the software from the same guy who designed it for CompuServe Information Service ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe ). It was written in TRS-80 Disk BASIC, and I rewrote it to use disk buffers to store all the strings (some oldtimers will know what I mean), so it never paused for string reorganization, as many early TRS-80 BASIC programs did.
Networking? What networking? Not yet in those days.
I'm not sure which is harder to understand, that someone owns you, or that Microsoft thinks anyone will want this on a general purpose home or business computer.
No, it's not Vista 2.x or 3.x, it's Windows 3.1 for five-year-olds.
Most modern photocopiers scan to a hard drive before printing.
So how much is my old printer/copier worth? You know, that old HP monochrome laserjet with the snap-on pass-through copier on the front?
Why would croissants be in the frozen food section?
Because it's Walmart.
50 state attorneys-general
Thanks for getting the plural right. Almost no one ever does.
sin just means "disobedience of God's law" or however you want to phrase it.
sin means without. http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/sin Go ahead and mod me funny or anything else if you wan to, but I believe this to be the derivation of the english language word: to be without the presence of God.
Southwest guy chuckles and said "you just handed your credit card to a 19 year old girl who probably has a crack head biker boyfriend waiting behind the restaurant to take your credit card number. Do you feel at risk?"
I've had cc info stolen a few times in my life. Each time the card info was used in a card-present transaction; once for several high-value card present transactions within a few miles of my residence, within an hour.
Which means the card info was copied off my physical card.
Don't forget that in most states those waitresses are making much less than minimum wage.
That doesn't affect the veracity of the article. If Best Buy and other transactional retailers complain about it, but it's not true, the article is still accurate.