Its pretty good, but still can be wacky... sometimes i hit start, and start typing to do a search, and it launches like 5 metro apps. I think they started fixing that with the latest version, but its pretty irritating.
You really need to read up on the rate-limiting effects of sucrase in the small intestine and how that affects the liver's fructose-processing capabilities and what happens when the liver gets fructose faster than it can handle.
And you really need to read up on how sucrose is what we call a disaccharide composed of equal parts glucose and fructose; and that "HFCS" refers to two different mixtures of fructose and glucose, one a 55-42 mix and the other a 42-53 mix (depending on whether its a food or a beverage).
Youll note that one of those mixes actually gives your body LESS fructose, so by your argument HFCS-42 should be healthier than sucrose.
people who want to believe that sugar itself isn't deadly
If only eating healthy were that easy. Alas, there is no magic bullet or boogieman that can explain the whole of what it means to be healthy-- though, indeed, if you cut your sugar, and HFCS, and fruit sugar (fructose) intake, you will very likely be better off. Start by realizing that the problem with soda isnt kind of sugar, its that each coke has 1/10th of a pound of "sugars".
The thing is 8 isnt bad, EXCEPT for the UI, which is and always will be bad on a desktop. Compare to Vista, where the OS was buggy and awful, but the GUI was sorta cool.
Fixing 8 wont involve patching bugs (as with Vista), it will involve ripping out the most visible feature (the metro crap) on desktop machines.
I guess you werent paying attention during 2012 when there was an election to determine who would run and staff the executive branch. Or during the times when people made fun of and insulted teh president, and then remained free-- they didnt go to a prison camp or disappear!
Parent is right, you have no clue. Go to China, watch as someone tries to distribute an underground newspaper and all of a sudden a bunch of police swarm the area and confiscate the papers out of your hand and arrest the dude. Go to Russia and form a rally to reform Putin's government, maybe youll get leniency and will only end up in prison for one or two years.
Tracert is ICMP, and can easily be routed differently than other traffic. ICMP also relies on hops telling you that they exist, both by generating an ICMP response and by decrementing the TTL. It also wont have any way of knowing whether a switchport is being mirrored (in fact, there is no technical way for an end user to discover that).
You don't know what you are talking about. Yes you can file by paper, and they will take up to 3 months to pay you. They will tell you that they never received your claims,
File by certified mail. And you can use web versions, as I said.
cheat you and then pay only a fraction of what you're entitled to.
News to me. You have a source, or are you just spouting?
I guess being a shill for Microsoft doesn't give you a whole lot of time to read the news.
Ok, not having used IE since 2004 and working with a combination of BSD, Linux, and MS makes me a shill for MS. Gotcha.
Lets keep in mind that the parent i was responding to was talking about everyday life, not what wacky restrictions you have to deal with as a healthcare provider. And Im saying that IE is not a necessity for 95% of people. See, as an IT guy, I have the chance to interact with a lot of customers, and suggest Chrome / Firefox (and have for ~8 years now), and know when it does and doesnt work. In most cases, it just works.
I would suggest you reevaluate your black-and-white view of the tech world. Not all people who use MS products are pro-MS fanbois, and not all "requires IE" instances are grand conspiracies.
My general point was that in discussions on Israel it seems like people take one side and dont want to admit that their side has done a lot to cause the problem. They will defend Israel, and ignore the questionable tactic of collective punishment or the ways in which Israel seems to try to provoke attacks. Or they will defend Palestine on the idea that we can ignore that Israel has been around for 70 years now, and we cant just pretend that the people there dont belong; and that any past injustices warrant any action whatsoever against civilian populatons; and that Israel somehow shouldnt be concerned over the repeated calls for its discussion.
If you cant recognize the flaws of your own "side" in a discussion, theres a strong chance you have the blinders on and are living in an echo chamber.
I get that Israel does some shady stuff, but its really important on an issue as touchy as this to try to be objective, and refrain from hyperbole. Neither side has been great about this, both sides have considerable grievances, but neither side is as bad as WW2 Germany or current North Korea.
False, you can file by paper, or do it through a web browser. Im sure theres Mac software too.
Almost all of the US healthcare requires mandatory use of IE
Ive had healthcare my whole life. I dont use IE, and havent for ~9 years. Also, this ISNT DRM.
Most of the govt healthcare websites (Medicare, Medicaid, etc) for fee for service physicians will only work with Windows and IE. No other operating system or browser is supported.
Where are you getting your info, I tried googling this and found zero to support that.
Most US insurance carriers web portals such as Navinet [navimedix.com] require IE and ActiveX.
Who is Navinet? Ive had Blue Cross, Kaiser, and United Healthcare. Never had to use IE. I wouldnt call "one small provider" most.
Instead MicroShaft has thrown alot of money in the healthcare industry in order to DRM lock it into it's own proprietary junk.
Baloney. Ive dealt with 4 of the top 10 providers in the US and have never dealt with this. This isnt a grand conspiracy. Im sure Microsoft lobbied for ActiveX at one point, but that ship sailed a long time ago and this IE only thing is a rarity these days.
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No its not...and it won't Apple will never be a serious contender for the Desktop
Thats really not an accurate statement. Apple could lower its prices at any time, its not like theyre running on thin margins.
I would consider buying a Mac if its prices were about 1/2 what they are, and my understanding is that that would still generate a profit for them.
but New Coke sucked all around
According to wikipedia, New Coke was actually considered the superior taste by every blind taste-test that Coke did.
You cant, when noone is using your stupid, empty app store.
Like the default PDF reader, which literally has me growling at my computer every time I open a PDF with it?
I had heard that Zune was actually a decent product and that the problem is that Microsoft absolutely sucks at marketing.
Its pretty good, but still can be wacky... sometimes i hit start, and start typing to do a search, and it launches like 5 metro apps. I think they started fixing that with the latest version, but its pretty irritating.
As, actually, is most of the information floating around about corn syrup.
You really need to read up on the rate-limiting effects of sucrase in the small intestine and how that affects the liver's fructose-processing capabilities and what happens when the liver gets fructose faster than it can handle.
And you really need to read up on how sucrose is what we call a disaccharide composed of equal parts glucose and fructose; and that "HFCS" refers to two different mixtures of fructose and glucose, one a 55-42 mix and the other a 42-53 mix (depending on whether its a food or a beverage).
Youll note that one of those mixes actually gives your body LESS fructose, so by your argument HFCS-42 should be healthier than sucrose.
people who want to believe that sugar itself isn't deadly
If only eating healthy were that easy. Alas, there is no magic bullet or boogieman that can explain the whole of what it means to be healthy-- though, indeed, if you cut your sugar, and HFCS, and fruit sugar (fructose) intake, you will very likely be better off. Start by realizing that the problem with soda isnt kind of sugar, its that each coke has 1/10th of a pound of "sugars".
The thing is 8 isnt bad, EXCEPT for the UI, which is and always will be bad on a desktop. Compare to Vista, where the OS was buggy and awful, but the GUI was sorta cool.
Fixing 8 wont involve patching bugs (as with Vista), it will involve ripping out the most visible feature (the metro crap) on desktop machines.
I guess you werent paying attention during 2012 when there was an election to determine who would run and staff the executive branch. Or during the times when people made fun of and insulted teh president, and then remained free-- they didnt go to a prison camp or disappear!
Parent is right, you have no clue. Go to China, watch as someone tries to distribute an underground newspaper and all of a sudden a bunch of police swarm the area and confiscate the papers out of your hand and arrest the dude. Go to Russia and form a rally to reform Putin's government, maybe youll get leniency and will only end up in prison for one or two years.
Tracert is ICMP, and can easily be routed differently than other traffic. ICMP also relies on hops telling you that they exist, both by generating an ICMP response and by decrementing the TTL. It also wont have any way of knowing whether a switchport is being mirrored (in fact, there is no technical way for an end user to discover that).
Its a LOT more complicated than that, because there isnt just some fiber line running 200 feet to a building labeled "the government".
What the heck does that have to do with literacy rates in vietnam and china?
THats partly because of idiots who last year said "See? Global warming" when we had abnormally warm weather.
You make your bed, you lie in it.
Why do people on slashdot feel the need to make points about things of which they have no information?
Free will? Personal responsiblity? Whats that?
Nah, theyre just robots without the ability to decide for themselves. And NO Israeli youths are disillusioned, right?
You don't know what you are talking about. Yes you can file by paper, and they will take up to 3 months to pay you. They will tell you that they never received your claims,
File by certified mail. And you can use web versions, as I said.
cheat you and then pay only a fraction of what you're entitled to.
News to me. You have a source, or are you just spouting?
I guess being a shill for Microsoft doesn't give you a whole lot of time to read the news.
Ok, not having used IE since 2004 and working with a combination of BSD, Linux, and MS makes me a shill for MS. Gotcha.
Lets keep in mind that the parent i was responding to was talking about everyday life, not what wacky restrictions you have to deal with as a healthcare provider. And Im saying that IE is not a necessity for 95% of people. See, as an IT guy, I have the chance to interact with a lot of customers, and suggest Chrome / Firefox (and have for ~8 years now), and know when it does and doesnt work. In most cases, it just works.
I would suggest you reevaluate your black-and-white view of the tech world. Not all people who use MS products are pro-MS fanbois, and not all "requires IE" instances are grand conspiracies.
*discussion--> destruction
I hadnt heard of that, thanks for posting.
My general point was that in discussions on Israel it seems like people take one side and dont want to admit that their side has done a lot to cause the problem. They will defend Israel, and ignore the questionable tactic of collective punishment or the ways in which Israel seems to try to provoke attacks. Or they will defend Palestine on the idea that we can ignore that Israel has been around for 70 years now, and we cant just pretend that the people there dont belong; and that any past injustices warrant any action whatsoever against civilian populatons; and that Israel somehow shouldnt be concerned over the repeated calls for its discussion.
If you cant recognize the flaws of your own "side" in a discussion, theres a strong chance you have the blinders on and are living in an echo chamber.
What prison camps are these? Maybe read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel
and compare it to what Nazi Germany did. Tip, trying people in a court and sending them to prison for a week isnt the same thing.
I get that Israel does some shady stuff, but its really important on an issue as touchy as this to try to be objective, and refrain from hyperbole. Neither side has been great about this, both sides have considerable grievances, but neither side is as bad as WW2 Germany or current North Korea.
Perspective, rationality, guys.
Its still absurd to compare NKorea to basically anyone except North Korea, or historical regimes.
Isnt Israel a democracy that DOESNT stick its people in prison camps?
Well, minus the stifling poverty, ruthless (crazed) dictator, and the WW2-esque prison camps, sure, maybe?
So DRM is creating a new type of business model, and anti-DRM folks dont like that.
Ah ok, I understand now.
The US also
False, you can file by paper, or do it through a web browser. Im sure theres Mac software too.
Almost all of the US healthcare requires mandatory use of IE
Ive had healthcare my whole life. I dont use IE, and havent for ~9 years. Also, this ISNT DRM.
Most of the govt healthcare websites (Medicare, Medicaid, etc) for fee for service physicians will only work with Windows and IE. No other operating system or browser is supported.
Where are you getting your info, I tried googling this and found zero to support that.
Most US insurance carriers web portals such as Navinet [navimedix.com] require IE and ActiveX.
Who is Navinet? Ive had Blue Cross, Kaiser, and United Healthcare. Never had to use IE. I wouldnt call "one small provider" most.
Instead MicroShaft has thrown alot of money in the healthcare industry in order to DRM lock it into it's own proprietary junk.
Baloney. Ive dealt with 4 of the top 10 providers in the US and have never dealt with this. This isnt a grand conspiracy. Im sure Microsoft lobbied for ActiveX at one point, but that ship sailed a long time ago and this IE only thing is a rarity these days.
"Not allowed to install root certificate and use signal coding" are completely different than "uses DRM".
They may be trust issues, but thats not the same thing.