Shocking, I know, but all scroll wheel mice are three button mice. If you click down on that scroll wheel instead of scrolling it, you get the third button click.
I looked at my wife's iPhone 4 after she upgraded to iOS7 and I was actually shocked at how bright and saturated all of the colors were on the home screen. It was actually kind of painful to look at.
Windows 8 actually isn't that bad. If you knew me in person, you would be totally suprised. I've been a big Linux user and anti-MS person for years. Had to use Windows 7 for the last few years at work, and for the last few months have used Windows 8 as my primary workstation. To me it seems like (other than the Metro start page) Windows 7 with a few cleaned up features like the new Task Manager. The amount of time I spend using any of the Metro UI: less than 1%. I don't even notice it any more, since I just hit the Windows key and type the name of the app I am looking for. I mostly spend my time in Remote Desktop into various 2008 and 2012 servers.
I use the same apps I always have (RDP, Outlook, Office, etc..) and I really don't see what the big deal is that the Start menu is now a Start page. To me it seems like they stole the Start page idea from Gnome 3.
From your 88 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 8,594 items, clicked 518 items, starred 1 items, and emailed 0 items. Since March 28, 2012 you have read a total of 92,192 items.
How about this: sometimes we actually **want** to feel like kids again and watch guys in rubber costumes chase a guy wearing a bow tie until he turns around, spouts off some silly time-wimey BS in a near-unintelligible British accent, waves a Harry Potter wand with a green crystal on the end, and saves the day. And we want to be able to watch that with our kids, too. Sometimes we want to escape the pressures of our boring lives and imagine hopping into a big blue box, pulling a few levers and twisting a few dials and going on adventures with a crazy person from the future.
When I feel like it, I pull out a good, thought-provoking novel, and when I don't, I pull out some "brain-candy" and just get lost. It's that simple.
I enjoy a good hard-SF novel as much as the rest of us here, but seriously, if you ever A) expected Doctor Who to be anything close to hard SF or B) ever expected *any* show of TV to be anything close to hard SF then you are on crack. Hell, the only channel to ever focus on even mildly good SciFi is now called SyFy and it has a 2 hour block of wrestling on every night.
I do the exact same thing. A "billpay" checking account where my direct deposit goes, a "spending" checking account with a debit card, and a savings account. I rarely keep more than $20 in the spending account and when I buy something I transfer what I need using the bank app on my phone.
But we are not freeloaders, we are people who have paid (A LOT, at the time) for a service and we expect Joyent to continue to uphold the spirit of that agreement. The 3 domains that I host on my server at Joyent are a personal website that hasn't been updated in years, my band's website, and a website for a friend of mine where he can upload his music for people to listen to. All in all I get a few hundred page views a month. Are you telling me that my little sites are really costing Joyent enough money to justify the bad PR that this will earn them? We were the early adopters and the "investors" in Textdrive. Textdrive might not have existed if it weren't for the $500 chunks of money that they got at just the right time back in 2005 and 2006, so where is the reciprocity???
But they chose to continue to honor the Mixed Grill offer when they morphed from TextDrive to Joyent. Not knowing what went on in the board room during the TextDrive->Joyent migration, I really couldn't say that "they" don't exist any more, but it seems to me that they do. They even worked a deal with the group that bought the rights to their Strongspace technology to continue the lifetime Strongspace plans after that part of the company had been spun off. So far they have been very accepting of their Mixed Grill users. To me this shows intent to honor the agreements.
I'm not usually someone to make waves, but is my single little shared server with 2-3 domains pointed to it (that receive a few hundred hits a month) really impacting your bottom line enough to justify breaching the deal that we agreed to way back in the beginning?? If anything it costs you significantly less to maintain that service for my one account now than it did in 2006.
The goodwill that offers like the Mixed Grill and your excellent service and customer support have earned you have been reciprocated by me (and other Mixed Grill customers) over the years in the glowing reviews that we have given you, increasing your customer base. If the other Mixed Grill users have been anything like me, they have recommended you to friends, coworkers, and business associates. They have probably enjoyed watching your company become the leading company to use Solaris and OpenSolaris technologies and they have probably been in awe of your advances with ZFS (as Strongspace), zones (with Shared Accelerators and now SmartOS), and they have been your biggest fans. I will bet that you have made a lot more money off of the Mixed Grill users than we have cost you. If the experience of Oracle with OpenSolaris has taught you anything, keeping the goodwill of your long-term fans and supporters is the most important resource that you have. Oracle learned the hard way that alienating your die-hard fans for short-term profit will probably hurt you in the long run.
I urge you to rethink this decision, and approach the original Mixed Grill customers as fans and supporters, and let us keep our little Shared Accelerators, or just migrate us to SmartOS instances without charge and let us continue to enjoy the great service that you are known for, all under the spirit of the original agreement.
I don't appreciate the condescending "sheeple" comment, by the way.
Public schooling did actually do me good. I was a bright child who read a couple of grades above level in elementary school and took AP classes in high school. I got A's without having to work too hard at it while still being challenged intellectually. I learn quickly. I am also lucky enough to have a mother (single mother at that!) who raised me well and encouraged me to read and learn on my own, as well as to think for myself.
Doesn't shock me at all, since the statement "half of all children that attend school perform below average" is THE DEFINITION OF AVERAGE. I'll even bet you that the other half of all school children perform above average. Ever seen a bell curve??
I agree with the GP, if you're school sucks in your area, do something about it! Saying "our nation's schools are horrible, let's all homeschool or send everyone to private schools" only moves the problem around and shits on all of the good work that public school teachers have been doing for decades (my mother retired from teaching your kids after 40 years). There are definitely real problems in public education, but scrapping the system completely and starting over is not a solution, nor is bleeding it dry financially and "standardized testing" our kids into little Scantron-bubbling morons.
ZFS does this much more simply with no ugly hacks. You can have mismatched drives when you build a mirror (the mirror is the size of the smallest drive in the mirror set), and then you stripe across the mirrors. As the older, smaller drives fail, replace them with newer, bigger drives and the pool magically gets bigger. 100GB + 500GB mirrored (100GB usable). 100GB dies, swap in a 750GB drive and now this pool is automatically resized to 500GB. Get 2 more drives? Mirror them and add them to the pool and your pool expands with no one the wiser.
Seriously, if you haven't played with ZFS before, download FreeNAS and give it a whirl. When I was a Solaris admin, ZFS was the most fun thing to work with by far.
Think about the fact that you pay some (quite a bit) up front for your phone on the subsidized plans. Usually full price minus the built in subsidy of about $300. At the time I signed up the value plans were about $15 less per line on the low talk time 2GB data type setups.
They have a deal where you make a down payment the same as the normal subsidy plan price of the phone and they do no interest 20 month loan on the balance ($300). Essentially letting you break even after 20 months then you own a phone and are on a better plan for as long as you continue to use your phone.
I don't work there, I just did a bunch of research and thought I would share.
This is the plan that I'm on and I love it. This month is my 20th month and my last phone payment. It's going to be nice to see my bill drop by $25 next month and know that I'm not beholden to them for anything, I can leave any time I want. The upside of that for them is that their service in my area is so good that I have no intention of leaving. They also aren't pressuring me to switch to a contract plan. They've called me once over the last 20 months and the guy tried to sell me the same plan but under a contract, and he was very friendly when I told him that I was happy with what I have. Haven't heard from them since.
I have a regular non-prepaid, no-contract plan with T-Mobile, and I also have a non-subsidized phone (Samsung Galaxy S 4G). I don't have any early termination fee.
If I remember correctly, there was a change at the end of the 90's that changed the way that the oil market was traded, and it decoupled the price of oil from the actual supply and demand model to a speculative model. The reason oil prices jump dramatically whenever Iran sneezes is not because the actual supply changes, but because speculators think it will change. The oil market is very happy when the price goes up now but the supply doesn't actually decrease, because in that window between the 2 events they make a crap-ton more money.
I wish I could "Like" this post. Summed it up perfectly. I stopped after book ten and I have have no intention of ever giving these books another thought.
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No, it is "panty waist", and it refers to the old-fashioned shirt/jacket thing that little kids wore that buttoned all the way around the top of their pants. Little kids wore them and the older kids referred to someone as a "panty waist", meaning they were weak like a little baby.
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Shocking, I know, but all scroll wheel mice are three button mice. If you click down on that scroll wheel instead of scrolling it, you get the third button click.
I looked at my wife's iPhone 4 after she upgraded to iOS7 and I was actually shocked at how bright and saturated all of the colors were on the home screen. It was actually kind of painful to look at.
Windows 8 actually isn't that bad. If you knew me in person, you would be totally suprised. I've been a big Linux user and anti-MS person for years. Had to use Windows 7 for the last few years at work, and for the last few months have used Windows 8 as my primary workstation. To me it seems like (other than the Metro start page) Windows 7 with a few cleaned up features like the new Task Manager. The amount of time I spend using any of the Metro UI: less than 1%. I don't even notice it any more, since I just hit the Windows key and type the name of the app I am looking for. I mostly spend my time in Remote Desktop into various 2008 and 2012 servers.
I use the same apps I always have (RDP, Outlook, Office, etc..) and I really don't see what the big deal is that the Start menu is now a Start page. To me it seems like they stole the Start page idea from Gnome 3.
This * 1000.
From your 88 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 8,594 items, clicked 518 items, starred 1 items, and emailed 0 items.
Since March 28, 2012 you have read a total of 92,192 items.
How about this: sometimes we actually **want** to feel like kids again and watch guys in rubber costumes chase a guy wearing a bow tie until he turns around, spouts off some silly time-wimey BS in a near-unintelligible British accent, waves a Harry Potter wand with a green crystal on the end, and saves the day. And we want to be able to watch that with our kids, too. Sometimes we want to escape the pressures of our boring lives and imagine hopping into a big blue box, pulling a few levers and twisting a few dials and going on adventures with a crazy person from the future.
When I feel like it, I pull out a good, thought-provoking novel, and when I don't, I pull out some "brain-candy" and just get lost. It's that simple.
I enjoy a good hard-SF novel as much as the rest of us here, but seriously, if you ever A) expected Doctor Who to be anything close to hard SF or B) ever expected *any* show of TV to be anything close to hard SF then you are on crack. Hell, the only channel to ever focus on even mildly good SciFi is now called SyFy and it has a 2 hour block of wrestling on every night.
As a geek, I was intrigued at the programming behind his response tree, but he is clearly a robot, albeit a very well-programmed one.
I do the exact same thing. A "billpay" checking account where my direct deposit goes, a "spending" checking account with a debit card, and a savings account. I rarely keep more than $20 in the spending account and when I buy something I transfer what I need using the bank app on my phone.
Hear, hear!! How about anyone under 2^10 since we're all geeks here??
I like being in the "less than 2^10 club". ;-)
Me, too. Perhaps we should get more of a discount the lower our ID is. ;-)
But we are not freeloaders, we are people who have paid (A LOT, at the time) for a service and we expect Joyent to continue to uphold the spirit of that agreement. The 3 domains that I host on my server at Joyent are a personal website that hasn't been updated in years, my band's website, and a website for a friend of mine where he can upload his music for people to listen to. All in all I get a few hundred page views a month. Are you telling me that my little sites are really costing Joyent enough money to justify the bad PR that this will earn them? We were the early adopters and the "investors" in Textdrive. Textdrive might not have existed if it weren't for the $500 chunks of money that they got at just the right time back in 2005 and 2006, so where is the reciprocity???
But they chose to continue to honor the Mixed Grill offer when they morphed from TextDrive to Joyent. Not knowing what went on in the board room during the TextDrive->Joyent migration, I really couldn't say that "they" don't exist any more, but it seems to me that they do. They even worked a deal with the group that bought the rights to their Strongspace technology to continue the lifetime Strongspace plans after that part of the company had been spun off. So far they have been very accepting of their Mixed Grill users. To me this shows intent to honor the agreements.
This is my response, I just sent this back to the CEO.
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I am understandably upset by this particular turn of events, since the terms that I signed up for stated that this service would be available for "as long as we exist" http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdrive.com/mixedgrill. That's pretty cut and dried as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not usually someone to make waves, but is my single little shared server with 2-3 domains pointed to it (that receive a few hundred hits a month) really impacting your bottom line enough to justify breaching the deal that we agreed to way back in the beginning?? If anything it costs you significantly less to maintain that service for my one account now than it did in 2006.
The goodwill that offers like the Mixed Grill and your excellent service and customer support have earned you have been reciprocated by me (and other Mixed Grill customers) over the years in the glowing reviews that we have given you, increasing your customer base. If the other Mixed Grill users have been anything like me, they have recommended you to friends, coworkers, and business associates. They have probably enjoyed watching your company become the leading company to use Solaris and OpenSolaris technologies and they have probably been in awe of your advances with ZFS (as Strongspace), zones (with Shared Accelerators and now SmartOS), and they have been your biggest fans. I will bet that you have made a lot more money off of the Mixed Grill users than we have cost you. If the experience of Oracle with OpenSolaris has taught you anything, keeping the goodwill of your long-term fans and supporters is the most important resource that you have. Oracle learned the hard way that alienating your die-hard fans for short-term profit will probably hurt you in the long run.
I urge you to rethink this decision, and approach the original Mixed Grill customers as fans and supporters, and let us keep our little Shared Accelerators, or just migrate us to SmartOS instances without charge and let us continue to enjoy the great service that you are known for, all under the spirit of the original agreement.
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An overwhelmingly large portion (83.3% according to 2007 study reported on here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-02-14/home-schools-secular/53095020/1 ) of the home-schooling crowd does it due to religious reasons, so I don't think it is a stretch to assume that this was the reason in this case.
I don't appreciate the condescending "sheeple" comment, by the way.
Public schooling did actually do me good. I was a bright child who read a couple of grades above level in elementary school and took AP classes in high school. I got A's without having to work too hard at it while still being challenged intellectually. I learn quickly. I am also lucky enough to have a mother (single mother at that!) who raised me well and encouraged me to read and learn on my own, as well as to think for myself.
Doesn't shock me at all, since the statement "half of all children that attend school perform below average" is THE DEFINITION OF AVERAGE. I'll even bet you that the other half of all school children perform above average. Ever seen a bell curve??
I agree with the GP, if you're school sucks in your area, do something about it! Saying "our nation's schools are horrible, let's all homeschool or send everyone to private schools" only moves the problem around and shits on all of the good work that public school teachers have been doing for decades (my mother retired from teaching your kids after 40 years). There are definitely real problems in public education, but scrapping the system completely and starting over is not a solution, nor is bleeding it dry financially and "standardized testing" our kids into little Scantron-bubbling morons.
2006 called, and it's pissed that MS stole all those features from ZFS....
ZFS does this much more simply with no ugly hacks. You can have mismatched drives when you build a mirror (the mirror is the size of the smallest drive in the mirror set), and then you stripe across the mirrors. As the older, smaller drives fail, replace them with newer, bigger drives and the pool magically gets bigger. 100GB + 500GB mirrored (100GB usable). 100GB dies, swap in a 750GB drive and now this pool is automatically resized to 500GB. Get 2 more drives? Mirror them and add them to the pool and your pool expands with no one the wiser.
Seriously, if you haven't played with ZFS before, download FreeNAS and give it a whirl. When I was a Solaris admin, ZFS was the most fun thing to work with by far.
Ya'll do realize that audio rack equipment also measures 19" across, and is 1/2 to 1/3 of the price of equivalent server room rack gear, right??
The math is a little better than that @ T-Mobile.
Think about the fact that you pay some (quite a bit) up front for your phone on the subsidized plans. Usually full price minus the built in subsidy of about $300.
At the time I signed up the value plans were about $15 less per line on the low talk time 2GB data type setups.
They have a deal where you make a down payment the same as the normal subsidy plan price of the phone and they do no interest 20 month loan on the balance ($300). Essentially letting you break even after 20 months then you own a phone and are on a better plan for as long as you continue to use your phone.
I don't work there, I just did a bunch of research and thought I would share.
This is the plan that I'm on and I love it. This month is my 20th month and my last phone payment. It's going to be nice to see my bill drop by $25 next month and know that I'm not beholden to them for anything, I can leave any time I want. The upside of that for them is that their service in my area is so good that I have no intention of leaving. They also aren't pressuring me to switch to a contract plan. They've called me once over the last 20 months and the guy tried to sell me the same plan but under a contract, and he was very friendly when I told him that I was happy with what I have. Haven't heard from them since.
I have a regular non-prepaid, no-contract plan with T-Mobile, and I also have a non-subsidized phone (Samsung Galaxy S 4G). I don't have any early termination fee.
If I remember correctly, there was a change at the end of the 90's that changed the way that the oil market was traded, and it decoupled the price of oil from the actual supply and demand model to a speculative model. The reason oil prices jump dramatically whenever Iran sneezes is not because the actual supply changes, but because speculators think it will change. The oil market is very happy when the price goes up now but the supply doesn't actually decrease, because in that window between the 2 events they make a crap-ton more money.
I wish I could "Like" this post. Summed it up perfectly. I stopped after book ten and I have have no intention of ever giving these books another thought.
Yeah, get those kids off my lawn!
No, it is "panty waist", and it refers to the old-fashioned shirt/jacket thing that little kids wore that buttoned all the way around the top of their pants. Little kids wore them and the older kids referred to someone as a "panty waist", meaning they were weak like a little baby.