As a developer, app markets have no appeal to me. They are too big or too small. They let everything in which cheapens the whole experience for users and developers. you still have to promote outside the app store and then you have to pay the middle man on top of it. Don't see the allure.
I'm a browser whore...I bounce from Firefox, into Chrome, over to Opera, and maybe a little IE if I'm feeling like I need something to fail. IE and Firefox are the worst, with Chrome in the middle and Opera at a solid #1. Opera is a like a red-headed step child (whatever that is). It works VERY well, has no memory leaks, no perceivable bloat, completely compliant (never had any issues) and it just works. Yet no one will use it because "it isn't very popular." Best excuse I've heard. Not like it matters, as a tool it renders the internet perfectly. I use Firefox for development work and as a second browser (I usually have two open to segregate tasks beyond tabbing). I use Opera as my private browser. IE is just there, because..... it is just there. It is more of a curiosity anymore.
Microsoft saved Apple's ass in the 90's. WTF are you talking about? Bill Gates floated Steve Jobs 100 million dollars and all-out saved the company---they were days away from bankruptcy.
Google and Apple have started the slow process of freeing us from the damn carriers' crappy closed off phones that couldn't do anything. Now I can buy a phone without some carrier's logo on it if I want and install apps or hell, make my own app! Bunch of spoiled ungrateful brats.... remember the days when you had to take some crappy phone that had a proprietary OS where you could only install the carrier's apps if at all? Now Google and Apple are oppressing us. What a joke.
Yes, heroine addiction can be a fitting metaphor for life in general. It is a vision quest of epic proportions. Not suggested. I've witnessed the affects of heroine on a family member. Sad.
Heroine addicts are not capable of making rational decisions. Period. If you are fooled into thinking they are, by your inexperience, they will wise you up sooner or later. Imagine a person who's every word is a lie and you will start to understand a heroine addict. Not trusting them is a first step. They will pwn a good trusting person who doesn't understand their condition.
Methadone is a drug used by the medical establishment to calm down addicts so that the practitioners life is easier. It is not a treatment. When you have a ward full of addicts, it will get crazy real quick. Methadone brings everything down to a mild roar so the doctors and nurses can handle the situation. Now it has morphed into some type of acceptable "treatment" to addict addicts to another drug. So they use methadone until they can get more heroine. What a joke.
Some people become overly annoyed at the obtuseness of others. Grow up. How do you find posts irritating? Do you become this ruffled in every debate? This is just healthy debate; let everyone air their thoughts and you can come to your own conclusion.
Don't use page files. I disable page files when I have more than 2GB of RAM. Everything works great and the hard drive gets to rest until I need it. Where is the issue?
The problem I have not optimizing is the net usage of energy. More cycles uses more energy. This powerful hardware you speak of now uses considerable power compared to those of 1995.
You think that's kewl, well get this: I have a Phenom II hex core at 3.4Ghz with 8GB of RAM running Windows XP 32 bit! YEAH! The lovely people at Gnome and Ubuntu are to blame for this--thanks for the free OS guys!. The 64bit versions of Ubuntu/Mint coupled with the fabulously buggy modern Gnome environment literally rendered my machine unusable. I had to install crappy old XP just to get stuff done. I'm sure someone is going to jump the yarn and tell me what I was doing wrong, but I played with different setups for months trying to get things right. Getting XP up and running, as gut wrenching as that is, was a relief after that crippled mess hampered my productivity for so long. Ubuntu 10 was so freakin awesome. WTF is wrong with these people hosing a good distro? Sorry, I drifted off topic. No I'm not new here.
I've heard that one before. It is campaign jostling. Also, there is a supposed troop draw down ("coming home") but then you find out that 10000 troops are being pulled from European bases with no mention of them going home. Where are they headed? Recycling.
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As a developer, app markets have no appeal to me. They are too big or too small. They let everything in which cheapens the whole experience for users and developers. you still have to promote outside the app store and then you have to pay the middle man on top of it. Don't see the allure.
Jesus-God! This is what we have needed all along. Finally a method to the madness--I can get all my apps in one place!
I'm a browser whore...I bounce from Firefox, into Chrome, over to Opera, and maybe a little IE if I'm feeling like I need something to fail. IE and Firefox are the worst, with Chrome in the middle and Opera at a solid #1. Opera is a like a red-headed step child (whatever that is). It works VERY well, has no memory leaks, no perceivable bloat, completely compliant (never had any issues) and it just works. Yet no one will use it because "it isn't very popular." Best excuse I've heard. Not like it matters, as a tool it renders the internet perfectly. I use Firefox for development work and as a second browser (I usually have two open to segregate tasks beyond tabbing). I use Opera as my private browser. IE is just there, because..... it is just there. It is more of a curiosity anymore.
Microsoft saved Apple's ass in the 90's. WTF are you talking about? Bill Gates floated Steve Jobs 100 million dollars and all-out saved the company---they were days away from bankruptcy.
Who cares, it runs a Linux kernel and I can write and install my own software if I wish. Boo hoo.
Google and Apple have started the slow process of freeing us from the damn carriers' crappy closed off phones that couldn't do anything. Now I can buy a phone without some carrier's logo on it if I want and install apps or hell, make my own app! Bunch of spoiled ungrateful brats.... remember the days when you had to take some crappy phone that had a proprietary OS where you could only install the carrier's apps if at all? Now Google and Apple are oppressing us. What a joke.
Yes, heroine addiction can be a fitting metaphor for life in general. It is a vision quest of epic proportions. Not suggested. I've witnessed the affects of heroine on a family member. Sad.
Heroine addicts are not capable of making rational decisions. Period. If you are fooled into thinking they are, by your inexperience, they will wise you up sooner or later. Imagine a person who's every word is a lie and you will start to understand a heroine addict. Not trusting them is a first step. They will pwn a good trusting person who doesn't understand their condition.
Methadone is a drug used by the medical establishment to calm down addicts so that the practitioners life is easier. It is not a treatment. When you have a ward full of addicts, it will get crazy real quick. Methadone brings everything down to a mild roar so the doctors and nurses can handle the situation. Now it has morphed into some type of acceptable "treatment" to addict addicts to another drug. So they use methadone until they can get more heroine. What a joke.
Some people become overly annoyed at the obtuseness of others. Grow up. How do you find posts irritating? Do you become this ruffled in every debate? This is just healthy debate; let everyone air their thoughts and you can come to your own conclusion.
Don't use page files. I disable page files when I have more than 2GB of RAM. Everything works great and the hard drive gets to rest until I need it. Where is the issue?
Hopefully in 10,000 years we will be civilized enough to use bidets.
The relationship started out OK, but when things got serious he went a little crazy.
The problem I have not optimizing is the net usage of energy. More cycles uses more energy. This powerful hardware you speak of now uses considerable power compared to those of 1995.
You think that's kewl, well get this: I have a Phenom II hex core at 3.4Ghz with 8GB of RAM running Windows XP 32 bit! YEAH! The lovely people at Gnome and Ubuntu are to blame for this--thanks for the free OS guys!. The 64bit versions of Ubuntu/Mint coupled with the fabulously buggy modern Gnome environment literally rendered my machine unusable. I had to install crappy old XP just to get stuff done. I'm sure someone is going to jump the yarn and tell me what I was doing wrong, but I played with different setups for months trying to get things right. Getting XP up and running, as gut wrenching as that is, was a relief after that crippled mess hampered my productivity for so long. Ubuntu 10 was so freakin awesome. WTF is wrong with these people hosing a good distro? Sorry, I drifted off topic. No I'm not new here.
HD screens, surround sound, its just nuts how much we all have now.
With a social disaster, and a failed government brewing all around us. Progress.
All the kids are doing it.
I've heard that one before. It is campaign jostling. Also, there is a supposed troop draw down ("coming home") but then you find out that 10000 troops are being pulled from European bases with no mention of them going home. Where are they headed? Recycling.
Dad is supposed to overrule his daughter, in theory. That doesn't mean she can't get her way. You are an idiot.
It looks like he may have been compromised by a Goa'uld. Alert General Hammond.
So is it a "cat nap" or a "power nap?" You decide.
Indeed, I found that opening my eyes and looking at something makes me tired. If I lie there awake with my eyes closed I will stay awake for hours.
I'm not supposed to be doing anything.
Slashdot = stagnant turd hangout of teenage dweebs.
Still better than Ars Technica.
"I was a good mother to you damnit!!"
That is American justice, you insensitive clod!