I think they're digging their own grave. There is progressively less magical wonders and more blatantly formulaic crap out there.
I can feel a new revolution coming within not too many years. After all - they had the same stranglehold over the music industry in the 80s (and especially the late 80s - how many great records were released in the late 80s?). Then grunge and alternative rock detonated and created quite a bit of upheaval in the business.
You can even go back to the mid-70s. The coked up soft rock they're trying to make cool again got a fist up its ass by punk rock. And the early 60s - demented harmonies by well-groomed stylish young men - and then there was a revolution when the Rolling Stones and the Beatles made girls scream and guys wear their hair longer.
The current dull music scene is the end of a cycle. The revolution will come. Again.
Of course, the base stations would be a bit vulnerable, but they will be less numerous in a airship scenario and therefore it will be cheaper to make the telecom infrastructure virtually indestrutible from acts of God.
It seems to me that Anandtech didn't run the Linux benchmarks in 64-bit mode for the AMD processors. Given that they are giving an indication of processor performance, they should allow AMD to use that extra gear. It's there to be used!
The Maldives is a special case. However, all you'd have to do there, would be to get out onto the deep ocean.
Anyhow - a normal relatively healthy human being can move somthing like 6 kilometers/hour on a sustained level for hours, and more like 10 if they really have to. Thus - even if you don't have enough vehicles for everyone, then half an hour or even 15 minutes of early warning would allow a substantial number of people to escape physical harm.
Let's add a few more valid reasons for deploying the chute:
Engine failure and you cannot find a good enough place for an emergency landing Medical emergency
and in the unlikely event that they can fit it onto a commercial airline - hijacking. Had those airplanes on 911 been fitted with some kind of emergency brake like this, the hijackers would have been limited to attempting to slaughter the people on board after the pilots had pulled that lever. Something to consider?
If I had an aeroplane, I would certainly get one. Seems pretty cheap considering that this will save your life in the event of engine loss (and various other conditions as well).
Prices are not absolutely horrifying either (starts at 2000 USD, which has the ability to save 225 pounds of stuff and human).
Sure. Terrorism is real. But we are reacting in irrational ways. The ways we react do in fact only make the most sense if either we're ruled by incompetent asshats that are out of touch with reality, or the asshats that rule us have a different agenda they don't disclose.
If I wanted to blow up New York City using a nuclear device, it would be by far easiest to load it into a container onto a container ship, offload it onto a speedboat off-coast (probably drop it off and have the speedboat pick it up so that the security people can't see what happened on the radar) and have a suicide bomber set it off inside New York harbor. Of course, you'd need a collusive captain on the ship.
However, answer me this: If you had an atomic bomb, wouldn't you agree that this is an easier and cheaper way to destroy New York City than to aquire, arming and sending off an ICBM?
You can also just de-install the firmware and instead use the prior version that allows you to play those files from Harmony if you are dissatisfied with the new firmware.
Anyhow - I dislike the fact that Apple controls pretty much the entire value chain. That is bad for competition, as such a widely defined product raises significant barriers against introducing new products that really competes in terms of functionality and ease of use and media availability.
I'm sure you'll be outraged to learn that France gets most of its elecriticy from nuclear plants - I think the percentage is somewhere around 60-80%. So - their reliance on oil is much less than yours.
"In the others, if you're a partisan who wants to be an election commissioner, you just learn enough of your opponent's buzz phrases to fool the interviewers. Then, once you're on the commission, you can look for ways to implement your bias without being noticed."
Wow. I actually counted ballots in the 94 referendum on EU here in Norway. Here's how it works:
You have a bunch of people from both sides of the issue (or all parties) around a table and count ballots. You also have other people double-counting the ballots. This multi-partisan crowd also witnesses the reporting of the result from that polling station.
So - there you have it. Implement this at all levels, and you'll be unable to implement your bias.
Of course, if you have electronic voting machines without a paper receit, then you'll be unable to put these checks and balances in place.
Morons like you are a threat to democracy. Basically, because you yourself have the inability to figure out a system that has integrity, you rule it an impossibility. Listen up - there exists people who are smarter than you, and there are routinely held indisputed elections with a high level of integrity elsewhere in the world - in Europe, in Asia, in Africa and probably elsewhere as well.. Why do you refuse to fucken learn from others?
Concerning sites that sell stuff to end users, adopting standards is becoming a good business proposition. Managers will be quite pleased when they learn they can reach 10% more customers just by tweaking their site..
Concerning nutso web developers who want to provide a rich multimedia experience on the web, firefox will need a 20-30% market share before they care.
I would wager that 90% of the voters in both camps fall into the above category.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Have you looked at the numbers that correlate church-going to favored presidential candidate? Just by being a born-again Christian who talks about how religion influences him gets Bush millions of votes.
Install Firefox and apply an IE-like skin - of course after testing that your webapps will still work. The security record of Firefox is not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than that of IE. If you prefer to pay money for security and support, you can always go for Opera instead.
Besides, if you're working in a company of 50 000, I'm sure you have a proper rollout-tool!
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem?
Say - if you want to take a full backup of large mysql tables without the comfort of a replicating slave. It is preferable to have planned downtime on a regular basis rather than unplanned downtime.
"I'll take increased functionality or cheaper price over looks any day of the week."
Good for you. However, most people decide based upon more subjective criteria.
The Carbon will not kill the iPod mini - it's too ugly and the specs of iPod mini clears the "good enough" criterion without problem. I also understand that it doesn't have the sexy clickwheel thingy.
Gadgets for Joe Average is about an experience in addition to techincal specs. The Carbon doesn't seem to have what it takes.
If a would-be terrorist/extremist wants to hassle the neocons, that person would just use the names of the lesser known ones as a fake identity and voilà - you'd have angry undersecretaries on airports!
(Yes I'm a bit childish today - it's Friday for God's sake)
Maybe moz should automatically send a bug report to the webmaster of the site with the error? A shitload of emails saying "please fix your code in line 65-78 in file index.html" might help motivate the webmonkey to start fixing the code..
1. Unplug your network connection before you install the OS. 2. Install the OS 3. Before you connect to the network, shut down every service you can shut down and make sure they don't start automatically. 4. Connect the computer to the network. 5. Run windows update until you're fully patched 6. Set up the firewall 7. Start enabling any service you might want to run.
This approach will hopefully keep you safe from harm - and it will definitely reduce your exposure!
to some degree. The player is widely distributed, so if you have the creativity and talent to make something richer than plain ole web pages - why not?
Just make a really plain html version - those people who have either disabilities or an anti-flash bias will appreciate the simplicity as their browsers or minds respectively will not be able to process all that pretty design anyhow.
Really - it comes down to matching the layout of the slide with a transition.. I bet it's possible to make a dissolve look cool - but it takes a bit of talent. Most people don't have talent, but some of them erroneously think they do. I think we're mostly blaming the messenger here..
Powerpoint and other presentation software is a really good tool if used correctly. If the presenters have letters flying around and they aren't prepared for it, then they aren't very good presenters!! No software package can replace "rehersal".
You keep on the good side of people/countries to keep your enemies numbered. If keeping them happy means significant sacrifices, consider carefully if the price of one less enemy is worth the sacrifice.
Remember, you're occupying a country of camel-fuckers, and that alone is tying up your resources - and not going so well either.
Sure Machiavelli had some smart things to say, but be careful in following blindly anything - and especially if it's five hundred odd years old and was not written in an environment with a sole superpower.
Besides, "share our values" and Machiavelli are incompatible in very fundamental ways. Machiavelli was all about realpolitik and manipulation. And how do you know what allies are "true allies and are of genuine use to us"? Machiavelli is very specific about that in your quote.
Anyhow, do yourself a favor - live overseas for a year or so. You might learn a few things, and your arguments will carry more weight whatever you learn.
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I think they're digging their own grave. There is progressively less magical wonders and more blatantly formulaic crap out there.
I can feel a new revolution coming within not too many years. After all - they had the same stranglehold over the music industry in the 80s (and especially the late 80s - how many great records were released in the late 80s?). Then grunge and alternative rock detonated and created quite a bit of upheaval in the business.
You can even go back to the mid-70s. The coked up soft rock they're trying to make cool again got a fist up its ass by punk rock. And the early 60s - demented harmonies by well-groomed stylish young men - and then there was a revolution when the Rolling Stones and the Beatles made girls scream and guys wear their hair longer.
The current dull music scene is the end of a cycle. The revolution will come. Again.
Of course, the base stations would be a bit vulnerable, but they will be less numerous in a airship scenario and therefore it will be cheaper to make the telecom infrastructure virtually indestrutible from acts of God.
It seems to me that Anandtech didn't run the Linux benchmarks in 64-bit mode for the AMD processors. Given that they are giving an indication of processor performance, they should allow AMD to use that extra gear. It's there to be used!
The Maldives is a special case. However, all you'd have to do there, would be to get out onto the deep ocean.
Anyhow - a normal relatively healthy human being can move somthing like 6 kilometers/hour on a sustained level for hours, and more like 10 if they really have to. Thus - even if you don't have enough vehicles for everyone, then half an hour or even 15 minutes of early warning would allow a substantial number of people to escape physical harm.
Let's add a few more valid reasons for deploying the chute:
Engine failure and you cannot find a good enough place for an emergency landing
Medical emergency
and in the unlikely event that they can fit it onto a commercial airline - hijacking. Had those airplanes on 911 been fitted with some kind of emergency brake like this, the hijackers would have been limited to attempting to slaughter the people on board after the pilots had pulled that lever. Something to consider?
(I am not a licensed pilot, by the way)
If I had an aeroplane, I would certainly get one. Seems pretty cheap considering that this will save your life in the event of engine loss (and various other conditions as well).
Prices are not absolutely horrifying either (starts at 2000 USD, which has the ability to save 225 pounds of stuff and human).
Sure. Terrorism is real. But we are reacting in irrational ways. The ways we react do in fact only make the most sense if either we're ruled by incompetent asshats that are out of touch with reality, or the asshats that rule us have a different agenda they don't disclose.
If I wanted to blow up New York City using a nuclear device, it would be by far easiest to load it into a container onto a container ship, offload it onto a speedboat off-coast (probably drop it off and have the speedboat pick it up so that the security people can't see what happened on the radar) and have a suicide bomber set it off inside New York harbor. Of course, you'd need a collusive captain on the ship.
However, answer me this: If you had an atomic bomb, wouldn't you agree that this is an easier and cheaper way to destroy New York City than to aquire, arming and sending off an ICBM?
You can also just de-install the firmware and instead use the prior version that allows you to play those files from Harmony if you are dissatisfied with the new firmware.
Anyhow - I dislike the fact that Apple controls pretty much the entire value chain. That is bad for competition, as such a widely defined product raises significant barriers against introducing new products that really competes in terms of functionality and ease of use and media availability.
I'm sure you'll be outraged to learn that France gets most of its elecriticy from nuclear plants - I think the percentage is somewhere around 60-80%. So - their reliance on oil is much less than yours.
You're not a democracy. You're a democratic republic. :)
"In the others, if you're a partisan who wants to be an election commissioner, you just learn enough of your opponent's buzz phrases to fool the interviewers. Then, once you're on the commission, you can look for ways to implement your bias without being noticed."
Wow. I actually counted ballots in the 94 referendum on EU here in Norway. Here's how it works:
You have a bunch of people from both sides of the issue (or all parties) around a table and count ballots. You also have other people double-counting the ballots. This multi-partisan crowd also witnesses the reporting of the result from that polling station.
So - there you have it. Implement this at all levels, and you'll be unable to implement your bias.
Of course, if you have electronic voting machines without a paper receit, then you'll be unable to put these checks and balances in place.
Morons like you are a threat to democracy. Basically, because you yourself have the inability to figure out a system that has integrity, you rule it an impossibility. Listen up - there exists people who are smarter than you, and there are routinely held indisputed elections with a high level of integrity elsewhere in the world - in Europe, in Asia, in Africa and probably elsewhere as well.. Why do you refuse to fucken learn from others?
Concerning sites that sell stuff to end users, adopting standards is becoming a good business proposition. Managers will be quite pleased when they learn they can reach 10% more customers just by tweaking their site..
Concerning nutso web developers who want to provide a rich multimedia experience on the web, firefox will need a 20-30% market share before they care.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Have you looked at the numbers that correlate church-going to favored presidential candidate? Just by being a born-again Christian who talks about how religion influences him gets Bush millions of votes.
Install Firefox and apply an IE-like skin - of course after testing that your webapps will still work. The security record of Firefox is not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than that of IE. If you prefer to pay money for security and support, you can always go for Opera instead.
Besides, if you're working in a company of 50 000, I'm sure you have a proper rollout-tool!
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem?
Say - if you want to take a full backup of large mysql tables without the comfort of a replicating slave. It is preferable to have planned downtime on a regular basis rather than unplanned downtime.
I think Apple will simply become a gadget powerhouse and a software powerhouse.
Look at the iPod. If they can produce similar quality gadgets, I don't think they'll go out of business anytime soon!
The OSX is also an impressive OS - and selling an easier-to-use and better integrated solution is not a bad business proposition.
"I'll take increased functionality or cheaper price over looks any day of the week."
Good for you. However, most people decide based upon more subjective criteria.
The Carbon will not kill the iPod mini - it's too ugly and the specs of iPod mini clears the "good enough" criterion without problem. I also understand that it doesn't have the sexy clickwheel thingy.
Gadgets for Joe Average is about an experience in addition to techincal specs. The Carbon doesn't seem to have what it takes.
Girls don't care about the usb memory part.. To them, it's a watch.
.. like an iPod mini.
They do care (a bit) about a sexy gadget that plays music
If a would-be terrorist/extremist wants to hassle the neocons, that person would just use the names of the lesser known ones as a fake identity and voilà - you'd have angry undersecretaries on airports!
(Yes I'm a bit childish today - it's Friday for God's sake)
Maybe moz should automatically send a bug report to the webmaster of the site with the error? A shitload of emails saying "please fix your code in line 65-78 in file index.html" might help motivate the webmonkey to start fixing the code..
Breathe in, breathe out. This can be overcome!
1. Unplug your network connection before you install the OS.
2. Install the OS
3. Before you connect to the network, shut down every service you can shut down and make sure they don't start automatically.
4. Connect the computer to the network.
5. Run windows update until you're fully patched
6. Set up the firewall
7. Start enabling any service you might want to run.
This approach will hopefully keep you safe from harm - and it will definitely reduce your exposure!
to some degree. The player is widely distributed, so if you have the creativity and talent to make something richer than plain ole web pages - why not?
Just make a really plain html version - those people who have either disabilities or an anti-flash bias will appreciate the simplicity as their browsers or minds respectively will not be able to process all that pretty design anyhow.
Really - it comes down to matching the layout of the slide with a transition.. I bet it's possible to make a dissolve look cool - but it takes a bit of talent. Most people don't have talent, but some of them erroneously think they do. I think we're mostly blaming the messenger here..
Powerpoint and other presentation software is a really good tool if used correctly. If the presenters have letters flying around and they aren't prepared for it, then they aren't very good presenters!! No software package can replace "rehersal".
You keep on the good side of people/countries to keep your enemies numbered. If keeping them happy means significant sacrifices, consider carefully if the price of one less enemy is worth the sacrifice.
Remember, you're occupying a country of camel-fuckers, and that alone is tying up your resources - and not going so well either.
Sure Machiavelli had some smart things to say, but be careful in following blindly anything - and especially if it's five hundred odd years old and was not written in an environment with a sole superpower.
Besides, "share our values" and Machiavelli are incompatible in very fundamental ways. Machiavelli was all about realpolitik and manipulation. And how do you know what allies are "true allies and are of genuine use to us"? Machiavelli is very specific about that in your quote.
Anyhow, do yourself a favor - live overseas for a year or so. You might learn a few things, and your arguments will carry more weight whatever you learn.