People aren't switching, they are just blindly typing into a search box which Microsoft hijacked. How can you fight that? The search needs of the average user are not stringent or detailed to the point where they really need Google. Is Google better, hell yeah. Does it matter? I think we have all been down this road before.
All this discussion and it seems to beat around the burning bush. What does it matter what devices people use? Most of our time is spent running around like chickens with our heads cut off building servers.....oh NO.....troubleshooting a server(s)......back to building the other servers again......ring ring.....hello....oh OK we need a share point server, OK. Get off the phone...start working on servers again...ring ring....hello, "yeah the app server is down again, no one can log in, well some people can but....", JESUS fucking Christ; who gives a shit if they have iWhatevers! The rack room is literally on fire and the bench area is full of server builds and the budget is cooked. Who gives a rats ass what Jenny VP has in her pocket.
True, two Samsung dumb phones ago I had near perfect voice recognition and dialing, you had to try to mess it up and a lot of the time it still figured it out. Didn't really care though. Although this may be a good interface for searching on a smart phone. Typing on a smart phone is a no go for me unless I absolutely have to.
I have been thinking there would be a trend back towards web rings. Since I have to feverishly record any valuable link I find, I also publish those links on my website to help others. This is a natural response to the difficulty of searching through SEO spam crap. Google makes money with their adsense/adwords system, but it is also creating an enormous incentive to put up crappy websites that add no value and garner accidental clicks.
" day in the genesis story can be translated to both "day" and "time span"."......reminds me of how my little girl says "Yesaday" which could mean yesterday, but more often means some time in the past.
It is not that any collection of chronicles can be called truth--they just are what they are. The things people want to call truth are their specific interpretation of these hallucinatory revelations, induced visions, and choppy chronicles of history (oral traditions or stories). If an intelligent person just reads and dissects the Bible (without any dogmatic framework) there is a lot to learn, especially when pieced together with modern collections of history involving Sumeria and Egypt. After you do this, the dogma is revealed as being very childish as to seem funny. It would be funny until you realize that a lot of people have been tortured by those who built and propagated that dogma. Give Talisman a read, by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval for a quick and vivid rundown of what the Catholic church engaged in for the 1000 years we call the "Dark Ages." It is from this that we receive what some call "The Truth."
Ahh...Solomon, now there is an interesting fellow. All this talk of wisdom and the first temple. This temple which resembles a masonic temple, extending from a group called the "templars" who went about a building spree many generations after the reported era of Solomon after supposedly discovering knowledge and great wealth while "guarding" a temple. All this wreaks of ancient stories and knowledge that was probably wiped out (possibly partially preserved beneath the Vatican) by the catholic Church during their frenzy to destroy the Cathars (crusades thru the inquisitions). I guess we'll never know. Back to work!
This Mexican drug cartel shit is out of control. They are practically right up our ass. Their presence is felt in almost every community in America, they extort public servants and teachers in Mexico (many have been killed and they demand 50% of their pay), and they flaunt their power or complete lawlessness to the world. Hitler did less than this and it was enough to mobilize the entire fucking globe to stop his party's advance. The Mexican drug cartels make the SS look like fucking strawberry shortcake and no one stands up to this shit. However ineffective "anon" is or would have been I laud them for trying or attempting to do something--whoever they are. WTF People!? Remember too that these drug cartels most likely operate in your community as well--yes IN America. They are everywhere. I'm truly saddened by all this.
Gnome 3 is awesome. What is wrong with it? Troll? Adding Gnome 3 to Ubuntu leaves you with several more easily selectable UI options. I was so turned off by Unity that I just selected classic over the default Gnome 3 UI, but it is probably better than Unity.
After several minutes of cussing (well, hours) I finally started searching for a solution to Unity. Finding out I could install Gnome 3 (which has other slick UI options as well) I did so and never looked back. I loved having my Applications neatly organized and readily available. They completely buried them and made it a chore to dig them up. The attitude is ridiculous though. I wouldn't be so pissed if I could have moved the unity bar to the bottom, but they saw fit to decide where I put the damn thing. That was the leaf that broke the monkey's back. Even Microsoft lets you put the damn task bar where you want it. The Mac OS X thingy (??) is nice too, fairly easy to manipulate and update with your apps. I love Ubuntu, but Unity was like throwing tacks onto a dance floor. I don't mind change, especially if it is super intuitive they way they think it is. But Unity is not intuitive. Maybe it is OK for someone who has never used Linux before, but it took me ten minutes to find terminal.
Your degree doesn't directly correlate with your profession. I can get a history degree and move into law without detracting from my skills as a developer. It has no bearing whatsoever. A degree is is just a certification that you have a broad education. Once you have refined communication skills and experience/exposure to a range of subjects you can then make better contributions in the profession you choose. You can also get university training for specific professions like engineering and work in business afterwards. It gets old hearing people talk about "what job can I get with that degree?" NONE! You must have something to offer a business in order to warrant getting paid. You must add value, period. You don't get to warm a seat and collect a check just for the sake of it. Nobody owes you anything.
As a person who is addicted to caffeine (I love you Starbucks) I have struggled with quitting for some time. I quit a few years back for a time to reduce high blood pressure (caused at age 30 by caffeine and sodium). After I had my blood pressure down I resumed my regular intake although I did still drink a few cups per week while I "quit." I can attest that the craving or draw to drink coffee doesn't leave, even after extended time away from it. Part of it is the habit of drinking it and the other is the chemical addiction. The chemical addiction requires that you consume the drug to feel "normal."
Cannabis has been found to be mildly addictive, but the chemical addiction is not persistent, after you kick it for a while you do not have a pull to use it. Contrast it with opiate, nicotine, or caffeine addiction and there is a clear difference. It is impossible to moderately use opiates yet they are prescribed on a massive scale. Cannabis (THC and the associated alkaloids) are not addictive yet it takes a states defiance of Federal statute to prescribe it to a few people who really need it. In hospice you can get pumped full of heroin, but you can't have cannabis.
The fact that they use the word "Marijuana" or "Pot" in the media and government communications is a clear indication of bias. The proper term is "cannabis," and unless that is the word used you cannot have a grown up discussion about it. I'm not being pedantic. It is like trying to promote or discuss civil rights and the whole time calling the disaffected race or people by a derisive name or slang term.
"Welcome to ABC News, I'm your host talking head: Today the President signed a new bill into law giving niggers the right to vote."
The White Houses' response was a childish insult, period. Now to read the other responses.
This is true. Microsoft has a total lock down on education because their systems are being used in business so the crappy curriculum at these crappy community colleges always uses Microsoft Windows. We were forced to roll out Windows 7 because it had to be in the computer labs, open labs, and library computers for the students to practice their lessons since all the books were using Windows 7. Throw a monkey wrench in this little conundrum and Microsoft will get a lump in their throat so big they just may choke. However, the main distro driving the conversion or switch to Linux, Ubuntu, better get their shit straight. I was using version 10 and got all excited about using Ubuntu on my next build as my primary OS, because it has finally come to the point where I do not have to have Windows. So I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10 64bit and installed it. After a few minutes I wanted to punch someone's skull in. It took me 10 minutes to get a terminal open after searching through the "Dash." I finally turned it up by searching for "command line!" This was the tip of the iceberg, it is so locked down I find myself longing for OS X! You can't move the Dash to the bottom, all the system admin stuff is squirreled away, paranoid you may find it Traversing the OS is sketchy, all the folders look to be depicted as text files. I went from a developer friendly, simple to use, breath of fresh air, no nonsense OS in Ubuntu 10 to a god damned cluster fuck! By the way, the driver discussion is straw man bullshit. A fresh Ubuntu install has all my drivers in place and everything working on brand new hardware. (ASRock 890GX Pro3 Motherboard, USB 3.0, SATA III, NIC, EVGA nVidia GS8400 GS) That part is a dream, on Windows you must have USB 3.0 drivers handy and you have to setup your printers from scratch, Ubuntu has the printers ready to go. I did have to authorize proprietary drivers for the GS8400 but it ran perfectly before doing that.
It is not just the power of the "open source rabble" at play. It is a matter of regular users and their mind share, which is always up for grabs. People used Netscape for at least five years past that point (till at least 2000) which left a significant impression on regular users (it wasn't just geeks who liked Netscape a lot of regular users still speak of Netscape to this day). If they had buried Netscape that early your average user would be calling Windows "the Internet" instead of just Internet Explorer like they do now. I'm still surprised how much the average user has browser preferences, and it makes me feel good.
This is a clear indication of the actual damage Microsoft has caused the industry and the world in general. It has bought many technologies and software systems burying them forever. If they had acquired Netscape we wouldn't even remember what it was and we would still be using IE 6, CSS would still be limping along, and Javascript would have disappeared--supplanted by ActiveX or some other Microsoft flavor of the year.
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People aren't switching, they are just blindly typing into a search box which Microsoft hijacked. How can you fight that? The search needs of the average user are not stringent or detailed to the point where they really need Google. Is Google better, hell yeah. Does it matter? I think we have all been down this road before.
All this discussion and it seems to beat around the burning bush. What does it matter what devices people use? Most of our time is spent running around like chickens with our heads cut off building servers.....oh NO.....troubleshooting a server(s)......back to building the other servers again......ring ring.....hello....oh OK we need a share point server, OK. Get off the phone...start working on servers again...ring ring....hello, "yeah the app server is down again, no one can log in, well some people can but....", JESUS fucking Christ; who gives a shit if they have iWhatevers! The rack room is literally on fire and the bench area is full of server builds and the budget is cooked. Who gives a rats ass what Jenny VP has in her pocket.
True, two Samsung dumb phones ago I had near perfect voice recognition and dialing, you had to try to mess it up and a lot of the time it still figured it out. Didn't really care though. Although this may be a good interface for searching on a smart phone. Typing on a smart phone is a no go for me unless I absolutely have to.
I have been thinking there would be a trend back towards web rings. Since I have to feverishly record any valuable link I find, I also publish those links on my website to help others. This is a natural response to the difficulty of searching through SEO spam crap. Google makes money with their adsense/adwords system, but it is also creating an enormous incentive to put up crappy websites that add no value and garner accidental clicks.
That would be awesome if they could search the comments available to you while you are logged in and subsequently cache them! Not illegal.
robots.txt means nothing. The bot CAN ignore it.
15 million? Try 1,115,376,424 results returned for: facebook cat funny
" day in the genesis story can be translated to both "day" and "time span"."......reminds me of how my little girl says "Yesaday" which could mean yesterday, but more often means some time in the past.
It is not that any collection of chronicles can be called truth--they just are what they are. The things people want to call truth are their specific interpretation of these hallucinatory revelations, induced visions, and choppy chronicles of history (oral traditions or stories). If an intelligent person just reads and dissects the Bible (without any dogmatic framework) there is a lot to learn, especially when pieced together with modern collections of history involving Sumeria and Egypt. After you do this, the dogma is revealed as being very childish as to seem funny. It would be funny until you realize that a lot of people have been tortured by those who built and propagated that dogma. Give Talisman a read, by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval for a quick and vivid rundown of what the Catholic church engaged in for the 1000 years we call the "Dark Ages." It is from this that we receive what some call "The Truth."
Ahh...Solomon, now there is an interesting fellow. All this talk of wisdom and the first temple. This temple which resembles a masonic temple, extending from a group called the "templars" who went about a building spree many generations after the reported era of Solomon after supposedly discovering knowledge and great wealth while "guarding" a temple. All this wreaks of ancient stories and knowledge that was probably wiped out (possibly partially preserved beneath the Vatican) by the catholic Church during their frenzy to destroy the Cathars (crusades thru the inquisitions). I guess we'll never know. Back to work!
"Everything cam from a big bang".....Oh Really? [citation needed]
What's wrong with Ohio? I live there.......oh, never mind. I have been shopping around for a new state.
Isn't it well known that they use cheap disks?
This Mexican drug cartel shit is out of control. They are practically right up our ass. Their presence is felt in almost every community in America, they extort public servants and teachers in Mexico (many have been killed and they demand 50% of their pay), and they flaunt their power or complete lawlessness to the world. Hitler did less than this and it was enough to mobilize the entire fucking globe to stop his party's advance. The Mexican drug cartels make the SS look like fucking strawberry shortcake and no one stands up to this shit. However ineffective "anon" is or would have been I laud them for trying or attempting to do something--whoever they are. WTF People!? Remember too that these drug cartels most likely operate in your community as well--yes IN America. They are everywhere. I'm truly saddened by all this.
The choice needs to be at login, not install.
Gnome 3 is awesome. What is wrong with it? Troll? Adding Gnome 3 to Ubuntu leaves you with several more easily selectable UI options. I was so turned off by Unity that I just selected classic over the default Gnome 3 UI, but it is probably better than Unity.
Have you tried Wine for your games? What about VirtualBox for your XP instance?
After several minutes of cussing (well, hours) I finally started searching for a solution to Unity. Finding out I could install Gnome 3 (which has other slick UI options as well) I did so and never looked back. I loved having my Applications neatly organized and readily available. They completely buried them and made it a chore to dig them up. The attitude is ridiculous though. I wouldn't be so pissed if I could have moved the unity bar to the bottom, but they saw fit to decide where I put the damn thing. That was the leaf that broke the monkey's back. Even Microsoft lets you put the damn task bar where you want it. The Mac OS X thingy (??) is nice too, fairly easy to manipulate and update with your apps. I love Ubuntu, but Unity was like throwing tacks onto a dance floor. I don't mind change, especially if it is super intuitive they way they think it is. But Unity is not intuitive. Maybe it is OK for someone who has never used Linux before, but it took me ten minutes to find terminal.
Your degree doesn't directly correlate with your profession. I can get a history degree and move into law without detracting from my skills as a developer. It has no bearing whatsoever. A degree is is just a certification that you have a broad education. Once you have refined communication skills and experience/exposure to a range of subjects you can then make better contributions in the profession you choose. You can also get university training for specific professions like engineering and work in business afterwards. It gets old hearing people talk about "what job can I get with that degree?" NONE! You must have something to offer a business in order to warrant getting paid. You must add value, period. You don't get to warm a seat and collect a check just for the sake of it. Nobody owes you anything.
As a person who is addicted to caffeine (I love you Starbucks) I have struggled with quitting for some time. I quit a few years back for a time to reduce high blood pressure (caused at age 30 by caffeine and sodium). After I had my blood pressure down I resumed my regular intake although I did still drink a few cups per week while I "quit." I can attest that the craving or draw to drink coffee doesn't leave, even after extended time away from it. Part of it is the habit of drinking it and the other is the chemical addiction. The chemical addiction requires that you consume the drug to feel "normal." Cannabis has been found to be mildly addictive, but the chemical addiction is not persistent, after you kick it for a while you do not have a pull to use it. Contrast it with opiate, nicotine, or caffeine addiction and there is a clear difference. It is impossible to moderately use opiates yet they are prescribed on a massive scale. Cannabis (THC and the associated alkaloids) are not addictive yet it takes a states defiance of Federal statute to prescribe it to a few people who really need it. In hospice you can get pumped full of heroin, but you can't have cannabis. The fact that they use the word "Marijuana" or "Pot" in the media and government communications is a clear indication of bias. The proper term is "cannabis," and unless that is the word used you cannot have a grown up discussion about it. I'm not being pedantic. It is like trying to promote or discuss civil rights and the whole time calling the disaffected race or people by a derisive name or slang term. "Welcome to ABC News, I'm your host talking head: Today the President signed a new bill into law giving niggers the right to vote." The White Houses' response was a childish insult, period. Now to read the other responses.
This is true. Microsoft has a total lock down on education because their systems are being used in business so the crappy curriculum at these crappy community colleges always uses Microsoft Windows. We were forced to roll out Windows 7 because it had to be in the computer labs, open labs, and library computers for the students to practice their lessons since all the books were using Windows 7. Throw a monkey wrench in this little conundrum and Microsoft will get a lump in their throat so big they just may choke. However, the main distro driving the conversion or switch to Linux, Ubuntu, better get their shit straight. I was using version 10 and got all excited about using Ubuntu on my next build as my primary OS, because it has finally come to the point where I do not have to have Windows. So I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10 64bit and installed it. After a few minutes I wanted to punch someone's skull in. It took me 10 minutes to get a terminal open after searching through the "Dash." I finally turned it up by searching for "command line!" This was the tip of the iceberg, it is so locked down I find myself longing for OS X! You can't move the Dash to the bottom, all the system admin stuff is squirreled away, paranoid you may find it Traversing the OS is sketchy, all the folders look to be depicted as text files. I went from a developer friendly, simple to use, breath of fresh air, no nonsense OS in Ubuntu 10 to a god damned cluster fuck! By the way, the driver discussion is straw man bullshit. A fresh Ubuntu install has all my drivers in place and everything working on brand new hardware. (ASRock 890GX Pro3 Motherboard, USB 3.0, SATA III, NIC, EVGA nVidia GS8400 GS) That part is a dream, on Windows you must have USB 3.0 drivers handy and you have to setup your printers from scratch, Ubuntu has the printers ready to go. I did have to authorize proprietary drivers for the GS8400 but it ran perfectly before doing that.
It is fun though!
What the hell is Digg?
It is not just the power of the "open source rabble" at play. It is a matter of regular users and their mind share, which is always up for grabs. People used Netscape for at least five years past that point (till at least 2000) which left a significant impression on regular users (it wasn't just geeks who liked Netscape a lot of regular users still speak of Netscape to this day). If they had buried Netscape that early your average user would be calling Windows "the Internet" instead of just Internet Explorer like they do now. I'm still surprised how much the average user has browser preferences, and it makes me feel good.
This is a clear indication of the actual damage Microsoft has caused the industry and the world in general. It has bought many technologies and software systems burying them forever. If they had acquired Netscape we wouldn't even remember what it was and we would still be using IE 6, CSS would still be limping along, and Javascript would have disappeared--supplanted by ActiveX or some other Microsoft flavor of the year.