http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
"Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$12.7 billion as of 2010."
I don't think you are going to find a lot of sympathetic people on/.
Nerds tend to have been close to their mothers, put the Va-j-j up on a pedestal (where it arguably doesn't belong), and rarely get laid. Hence they fall in love with, and kiss the ass of, the first girl that is willing to have decent intercourse with them. Because of this, they also tend to end up with strong opinionated women that they kowtow too. Yeah yeah I'm being super general but overall I think it is a strong trend on my engineer friends.
Seems to me it would be pretty easy to scan people as they crossed borders, got on airplanes, or entered a building with RFID scanners. Couldn't this type of tech tell big brother whose money you have and give an idea of where you got it.
I don't like it. Not one bit. Groups like the NSA, TSA, CIA, etc are already going way too far. I hope this doesn't catch on.
the government is not the enemy, corporations are. the greatest enemy capitalism has ever known, in fact, is not communism, but corporatism, in all of economic history, the big players have always warped the markplace in their direction. yet so many fools believe this phony narrative of the government and poor people being the enemy of capitalism, and large corporations heroes, or at worst, harmless victims on the sidelines, of evil government regulations (that are written by those same corporations)
so hopefully, a reveal of how corporations are your real enemy, not your government, might open some foolish eyes, for once, i hope
So you admit that perhaps the biggest tool these corporations have in controlling the markets, is government. The bigger and more complex the government, the more likely large corporations can do nasty things to the market via Washington. Big government is not the answer to big corps.
How did parent make it to +4 insightful? I can't even tell if he is joking or not.
The USSR placed nukes in Cuba (their ally at the time) that could strike most of the continental USA. This was after (and largely in response too) US missile capability was upgraded in Western Europe to do essentially the same thing. The only reason it even became a "crisis" was because the US government found out about the nukes in Cuba and started threatening to bomb them. The stakes gradually rose from there until it was at the point of a nuclear showdown when cooler heads finally prevailed. That has NOTHING to do with modern day terrorists. And modern day Cuba also has NOTHING to do with terrorism. It is a communist state, under new leadership as of two years ago, that is trying to rise out of poverty and embrace some capitalistic ideals. I don't think there are any people in Cuba that want to kill every man woman and child in the USA. Especially since it would mean killing millions of Cubans.
Attempting to colonize another planet could provide more perspective to our situation on earth. Lets say that we spend tens of billions of dollars on a complete failure where everyone dies. Maybe that will make us value our own planet a bit more...
But chalking decisions like this up to "professional courtesy" or a broken legal system is overhasty.
Don't fool yourself, the system is broken. It's broken bad.
Patents, Blagojevich, DUIs, family law, OJ, cops, big-pharma, it just goes on and on. Taking things to court means little chance of justice. Our courts have become just another tool of the rich and powerful.
But I got tired of waiting and sold my PS3 on craigslist about 18 months ago. After my experience with the PS3 (way too expensive and did not deliver what I was expecting, particularly with game titles) I don't expect to purchase another Sony console anytime soon. It's too bad cause I was what you'd call a fanboi 3 years ago...
My sister was a semi-experienced windows user and she often had problems with her laptop(s). Normally I'd help her out with advice (use firefox, try malwarebytes etc...) and the occasional (every 2 years or so) backup, re-format, and windows re-install when things started getting really slow or the OS had problems. A friend of mine always gave me crap for dealing with that stuff and not pushing my family in the Mac world. His argument was very similar to yours..
So, last Christmas we (Mom and I) got my sister a macbook for around $1300 (vs a $600 windows laptop with comparable hardware). I tried getting a macbook for Mom as well but she refused, and said only Windows please. At first my sister was annoyed, but then she started getting used to the UI and was happy. Then I saw a series of angry posts on her facebook about 6 months later... The story goes:
1. The machine would not boot into OSX randomly one day.
2. She took it to an Apple "authorized" repair place in Australia (where she lives) and they attempted some sort of system recovery that was unsuccessful and said her data was lost (pictures, music,etc).
3. She left the shop, called Apple support, and went through 2+ hours of troubleshooting on the phone, and they came to same conclusion as the authorized repair place (unrecoverable OS issue).
4. She went back to repair place and they wiped her machine, losing all her data.
5. She is furious with Apple now (didn't back her stuff up, of course.) and refuses to ever own another Apple product.
Now my sister is used to big bro saving her ass when it comes to hosed OSes, so she didn't ever bother to back anything up and basically figured the Apple repair place would be able to work the same magic I did when her windows machines crapped out. Turns out they couldn't, and they actually told her that taking the HDD out to access her files on another machine was not an option.
Now this is a single case study and may well be an outlier, but I certainly didn't have the same experience as you. I did have less hassle from my sister about her computer for a while. But I spent a bunch of money and she is even less happy than she was with her windows machine now. With the upgrades to Windows 7 (over Vista) I now have a tough time definitively recommending Apple products at their current price points.
Disclaimer: I'm not a windows fanboy (fps games only;) and if I could afford it I'd have a macbook pro for a laptop.
I went to a leadership convention at the UN building in New York circa 2007 for a global warming talk headlined by Al Gore (althouugh he failed to show up). After three days of hearsay, soft science, and liberal politics I left the building hoping I never have to return.
The UN is a group of international freeloaders trying to cash in on the next big thing.
My last 3 laptops (one was a netbook) came with windows pre-installed. I either wiped the drive and installed Linux, or made the machine dual boot (with Linux being my default/primary OS) within two months on all of them. I'm sure the "research" that went into this story would count my last three notebooks as running Windows since that is what came pre-installed.
A much more interesting data point would be what people are installing themselves. Of course it's a small number of users, less than 5% I assume. But the trend in that segment would be much more telling to me about what OSes are coming up and which ones are not as popular as they used to be with the aftermarket crowd..
Of course we are talking about PC magazine, a publication that I have actively avoided since 1993.
The advent and wide spread use of surround sound systems has made the issue a bigger problem as well. Try watching travel channel on DirectTV using the optical out. It's really pretty insane, like orders of magnitude in difference between commercials and the show you are trying to watch/hear...
This appears to be the closest, semi-habital planet outside our solar system we have found so far. So all the haters taking about tides, 3x earth mass etc... just chill out. This is a great find and hopefully the data we get back the gravitational shifting will help us find more of these in the near future.
Yeah... there are good reasons that the founding fathers went to great lengths to insert a couple degrees of separation between the people and government (see electoral system, checks and balances, strong states' rights, smaller government etc...). It seems that corruption in politics, the press, and our legal system has gone a long way to overcome the safety measures that were put in place 200 years ago. We are quickly sliding into mob rule.
I hate to re-hash, but It's strikingly similar to the slow decline experienced by the Roman Empire some 1500 years ago except on an accelerated pace. I give the USA another 50 years before we are cowed by other nations, most likely Asian powers.
The systems that IBM sold to the "Nazis" was contracted before the US was at war with Germany. IBM worked closely with the US to create new, better, encryption and decryption machines that greatly helped the allies during the war, not Axis powers. This gave us critical advantages, especially in the Pacific.
What a lot of these judges in the past have written at the lower-court level, especially when they greenlight these extortion racket tactics, make me suspect bribery to be in play as well.
I always thought that bribery didn't happen in our justice system. Then I worked for a man that killed a homeless guy who robbed him and then assaulted the first police officer on the scene. He spent 6 months in a work furlough program (this was during the time I worked for him, he loved bragging about it), for a sentence that should have been 20 years. We were sort of friends (I was always a little scared of him) so I asked him one day how he got off so easy. He said, under his lawyers advice, he produced 2 cashiers checks to names he didn't recognize, for $25k and $50k. He came from a rich, and powerful family so it wasn't a problem. He later found out one name was the DA that took his case, and the other was the judge.
I no longer have any faith in our legal system and cases like this are no surprise to me anymore. The rich control the courts through crooked DAs and judges; they also control the government through crooked lobbyists and politicians. It's not always as clear but as what my old boss pulled, but the system is badly broken.
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There were 3 major reasons I voted for Obama:
1. Sensible universal health care. (semi-FAIL)
2. Maintain net neutrality. (semi-FAIL)
3. A JFK-esque speech to get us going to Mars. (TBD)
I think you should get a SUV and chill out dude.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
"Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$12.7 billion as of 2010."
Reminds me of this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRtd8ArvH_s
I don't think you are going to find a lot of sympathetic people on /.
Nerds tend to have been close to their mothers, put the Va-j-j up on a pedestal (where it arguably doesn't belong), and rarely get laid. Hence they fall in love with, and kiss the ass of, the first girl that is willing to have decent intercourse with them. Because of this, they also tend to end up with strong opinionated women that they kowtow too. Yeah yeah I'm being super general but overall I think it is a strong trend on my engineer friends.
Seems to me it would be pretty easy to scan people as they crossed borders, got on airplanes, or entered a building with RFID scanners. Couldn't this type of tech tell big brother whose money you have and give an idea of where you got it.
I don't like it. Not one bit. Groups like the NSA, TSA, CIA, etc are already going way too far. I hope this doesn't catch on.
support our 12 year old 1337 h4ck3r overlords.
the government is not the enemy, corporations are. the greatest enemy capitalism has ever known, in fact, is not communism, but corporatism, in all of economic history, the big players have always warped the markplace in their direction. yet so many fools believe this phony narrative of the government and poor people being the enemy of capitalism, and large corporations heroes, or at worst, harmless victims on the sidelines, of evil government regulations (that are written by those same corporations)
so hopefully, a reveal of how corporations are your real enemy, not your government, might open some foolish eyes, for once, i hope
So you admit that perhaps the biggest tool these corporations have in controlling the markets, is government. The bigger and more complex the government, the more likely large corporations can do nasty things to the market via Washington. Big government is not the answer to big corps.
How did parent make it to +4 insightful? I can't even tell if he is joking or not.
The USSR placed nukes in Cuba (their ally at the time) that could strike most of the continental USA. This was after (and largely in response too) US missile capability was upgraded in Western Europe to do essentially the same thing. The only reason it even became a "crisis" was because the US government found out about the nukes in Cuba and started threatening to bomb them. The stakes gradually rose from there until it was at the point of a nuclear showdown when cooler heads finally prevailed. That has NOTHING to do with modern day terrorists. And modern day Cuba also has NOTHING to do with terrorism. It is a communist state, under new leadership as of two years ago, that is trying to rise out of poverty and embrace some capitalistic ideals. I don't think there are any people in Cuba that want to kill every man woman and child in the USA. Especially since it would mean killing millions of Cubans.
Attempting to colonize another planet could provide more perspective to our situation on earth. Lets say that we spend tens of billions of dollars on a complete failure where everyone dies. Maybe that will make us value our own planet a bit more...
But chalking decisions like this up to "professional courtesy" or a broken legal system is overhasty.
Don't fool yourself, the system is broken. It's broken bad.
Patents, Blagojevich, DUIs, family law, OJ, cops, big-pharma, it just goes on and on. Taking things to court means little chance of justice. Our courts have become just another tool of the rich and powerful.
But I got tired of waiting and sold my PS3 on craigslist about 18 months ago. After my experience with the PS3 (way too expensive and did not deliver what I was expecting, particularly with game titles) I don't expect to purchase another Sony console anytime soon. It's too bad cause I was what you'd call a fanboi 3 years ago...
Going off his sig... I don't think the parent is old enough to vote.
And, as a poster above mentioned, there aren't client limitations like with windows server.
Seems like Solar Warning is a better name for it. It's not like they are putting something in space to shield us from anything.
My sister was a semi-experienced windows user and she often had problems with her laptop(s). Normally I'd help her out with advice (use firefox, try malwarebytes etc...) and the occasional (every 2 years or so) backup, re-format, and windows re-install when things started getting really slow or the OS had problems. A friend of mine always gave me crap for dealing with that stuff and not pushing my family in the Mac world. His argument was very similar to yours..
So, last Christmas we (Mom and I) got my sister a macbook for around $1300 (vs a $600 windows laptop with comparable hardware). I tried getting a macbook for Mom as well but she refused, and said only Windows please. At first my sister was annoyed, but then she started getting used to the UI and was happy. Then I saw a series of angry posts on her facebook about 6 months later... The story goes:
1. The machine would not boot into OSX randomly one day.
2. She took it to an Apple "authorized" repair place in Australia (where she lives) and they attempted some sort of system recovery that was unsuccessful and said her data was lost (pictures, music,etc).
3. She left the shop, called Apple support, and went through 2+ hours of troubleshooting on the phone, and they came to same conclusion as the authorized repair place (unrecoverable OS issue).
4. She went back to repair place and they wiped her machine, losing all her data.
5. She is furious with Apple now (didn't back her stuff up, of course.) and refuses to ever own another Apple product.
Now my sister is used to big bro saving her ass when it comes to hosed OSes, so she didn't ever bother to back anything up and basically figured the Apple repair place would be able to work the same magic I did when her windows machines crapped out. Turns out they couldn't, and they actually told her that taking the HDD out to access her files on another machine was not an option.
Now this is a single case study and may well be an outlier, but I certainly didn't have the same experience as you. I did have less hassle from my sister about her computer for a while. But I spent a bunch of money and she is even less happy than she was with her windows machine now. With the upgrades to Windows 7 (over Vista) I now have a tough time definitively recommending Apple products at their current price points.
Disclaimer: I'm not a windows fanboy (fps games only;) and if I could afford it I'd have a macbook pro for a laptop.
Is it just me, or have /. summaries been more misleading than usual the last month or so?
I went to a leadership convention at the UN building in New York circa 2007 for a global warming talk headlined by Al Gore (althouugh he failed to show up). After three days of hearsay, soft science, and liberal politics I left the building hoping I never have to return.
The UN is a group of international freeloaders trying to cash in on the next big thing.
My last 3 laptops (one was a netbook) came with windows pre-installed. I either wiped the drive and installed Linux, or made the machine dual boot (with Linux being my default/primary OS) within two months on all of them. I'm sure the "research" that went into this story would count my last three notebooks as running Windows since that is what came pre-installed.
A much more interesting data point would be what people are installing themselves. Of course it's a small number of users, less than 5% I assume. But the trend in that segment would be much more telling to me about what OSes are coming up and which ones are not as popular as they used to be with the aftermarket crowd..
Of course we are talking about PC magazine, a publication that I have actively avoided since 1993.
The advent and wide spread use of surround sound systems has made the issue a bigger problem as well. Try watching travel channel on DirectTV using the optical out. It's really pretty insane, like orders of magnitude in difference between commercials and the show you are trying to watch/hear...
Muuuaaaaaaaaaaahh...2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.
Where is my wine glass?
This appears to be the closest, semi-habital planet outside our solar system we have found so far. So all the haters taking about tides, 3x earth mass etc... just chill out. This is a great find and hopefully the data we get back the gravitational shifting will help us find more of these in the near future.
Yeah... there are good reasons that the founding fathers went to great lengths to insert a couple degrees of separation between the people and government (see electoral system, checks and balances, strong states' rights, smaller government etc...). It seems that corruption in politics, the press, and our legal system has gone a long way to overcome the safety measures that were put in place 200 years ago. We are quickly sliding into mob rule.
I hate to re-hash, but It's strikingly similar to the slow decline experienced by the Roman Empire some 1500 years ago except on an accelerated pace. I give the USA another 50 years before we are cowed by other nations, most likely Asian powers.
The systems that IBM sold to the "Nazis" was contracted before the US was at war with Germany. IBM worked closely with the US to create new, better, encryption and decryption machines that greatly helped the allies during the war, not Axis powers. This gave us critical advantages, especially in the Pacific.
Or you could just get a decent dog and not worry about locking anything or killing someone because they tried to take your TV.
What a lot of these judges in the past have written at the lower-court level, especially when they greenlight these extortion racket tactics, make me suspect bribery to be in play as well.
I always thought that bribery didn't happen in our justice system. Then I worked for a man that killed a homeless guy who robbed him and then assaulted the first police officer on the scene. He spent 6 months in a work furlough program (this was during the time I worked for him, he loved bragging about it), for a sentence that should have been 20 years. We were sort of friends (I was always a little scared of him) so I asked him one day how he got off so easy. He said, under his lawyers advice, he produced 2 cashiers checks to names he didn't recognize, for $25k and $50k. He came from a rich, and powerful family so it wasn't a problem. He later found out one name was the DA that took his case, and the other was the judge.
I no longer have any faith in our legal system and cases like this are no surprise to me anymore. The rich control the courts through crooked DAs and judges; they also control the government through crooked lobbyists and politicians. It's not always as clear but as what my old boss pulled, but the system is badly broken.