So obviously you want the number of crashes to be less than or equal to 0 {snip}
Imagine if suddenly one day, *more planes landed than had taken off* that morning...
:D:D:D
On-topic: People seem to have forgotten that flying is an inherently risky thing to do. Safeguards, safety, and the odds have gotten better, but when you fling your solid self up into a gas, you do so **knowing that you will eventually come down**... - most hopefully in a nice, controlled manner. We've done many, many things to ensure the controlled come-down, but even so - they don't all work, not all of the time.
I live in the deep South East of the US, have my whole life, and in my 30+ years of employment both for others companies large and small and while working on my own as an independent, have never, ever, not even _once_ been asked whether or not I was a Christian (or any other religion), and certainly not within a framework of reference which would have determined whether or not I would get the job. I think you are ***WAY*** over the top with exaggerating this, propagating a stereotype that works great in movies, but has shit-all to do with real life.
Like yourself, I was raised in a Christ-based church (Lutheran, my father was a minister and deeply religious, as are most of the rest of my family), and also like you, have grown and 'intellectualized' myself (for good or for bad) out of the church/religious belief system in which I was raised. Not surprisingly, I too feel that there are some large parts of religion, especially historically, that are pretty simply just about 'control', for whatever reason. But what you will not find in the recent history of religion by-and-large are numbers of religious fanatics other than Islamists who are ready and willing to go out and kill other people who have a different religious belief system. Who, if I am to believe what I have read, are to some degree *encouraged* to do so - and not only by ancient/old writings, but by clerical leaders within that religions framework even this very day. Worldwide.
No other religion in our day and age regularly has public call-outs for the death of 'unbelievers' like this particular religion does. Period. *That* is what makes it different, and to my mind, a throwback and dangerous. I would really, really, REALLY like to see some ACTION from the moderates I always hear about 2nd or 3rd hand who claim that this religion is of peace and love, but IME I have yet to see any public, noteworthy call for a cessation of the hostility and barbarity, as well as a condemnation of those who would encourage these acts of senseless cruelty.
Where is the big leader in this religion who will risk fatwa and jihad against himself to try and put an end to the attitudes which prevent the ability to live side by side with others who think differently in their personal choice of religions?
I don't see them, not in any significant way. That, to me, says that there may well be something of merit to what those who call them "islamofascists" have to say.
I do have an open mind, and would love to see harmony instead of strife over these things. I bear no ill will against anyone who is a PEACEFUL Muslim and/or otherwise named follower of the precepts of Islam/Mohamed (or any other religious figure, include L Ron, if I have to;) ). But until the Muslim religion can show us a _worldwide known and recognized leader_ speaking out regularly and vociferously against the violence perpetuated against non-Muslims, then I have a very hard time believing that all they really are is only about peace and love and just plain old gettin' along...
So maybe now, having written this, I'd better pack my bags and go live with the boys in their Colorado mansion...;)
So from this post we learn that AnonClown has never bought much in the way of Apple hardware...;)
The 'high quality' of Apple products seems to me to almost be urban myth, I have seen many examples which tell another story. AppleDefects.com has a "pretty good" list of their historical quality issues, although I do find it puzzling that their IBook G4 page has no entries, considering how many people suffered through the kernel panic issues they had thanks to faulty design of the wireless card socket* (fixed in gen2, of course).
Mod me down, fanboys, but as an Apple Outsider my impressions of their 'quality', and the very poor way in which they deal with it at times - especially considering the premium that their clientele pay - is what gives me this impression.
*(like the G4 wireless issue, their solution was to buy a new mobo - for ~$800 - when it could be fixed like I have several times with a folded sheet of paper)
(Heh. Sorry, but that one was just floating over the plate...)
Sorry to 'hear' about your troubles, but I don't think you'll be able to talk this crowd into doing a voluntary DDOS of the site...
Why not create a web page explaining all this, so that when you get a contact from an irate ex-customer, you can simply direct them there. I would imagine that any current customers affected are pleased with your service, and so a brief explanation to them in which they find you are not really billing them anything would be enough to smooth things over.
1. Remove your nose from between his ass cheeks.
2. Don't put your nose back in between his ass cheeks.
3. Don't smell things, including your fingers, which have been between someone else's ass cheeks.
4. Follow these same rules with your own ass cheeks, just in case you are having irrational butthurt as well.
Same here - economically a traditionally low-earning area in the Deep South, technologically - well, most folks here can't even spell that word. But we have a dedicated room in the library with (~a dozen) new rigs and what seem to me as a non-gamer to be recent titles with an emphasis on shoot-em-up type games.
Yet when I offer to use the facilities in order to teach a class _for free_ to these same people about how to use Open Source technologies in order that they might be able to take a 'clunker' system home and know enough to actually get some real work done with it, well, there is no response beyond whatever I get at the point in time of offering.
These are people who need instruction to do "Yahoo email" or "Facebook classes" {roll_eyes}, yet they can sit down for a few hours and game away in what is otherwise intended to be a place of learning? Where - what - is the priority here? It sure doesn't seem to be much of one for developing intelligence, problem solving abilities, and a technological skill set that can be used in the day-to-day work world that most of us live in.
OTOH, they are learning a skill set which might make them mighty useful as 'digital warriors' of the future, where they sit at home and kill enemies far afield by designating them as targets on their monitor...
But if I follow that thought to a conclusion, maybe *I'd* be better off learning how to make tin-foil hats.;)
I don't want my OS to be interesting, for fuck's sake. I want it very predictable and unobtrusive.
Here, here. Glad to see someone else who doesn't give a shit that an "OS be tightly integrated with/for social networking"? Why is staring at our electronic bellybuttons so frikkin' important??? Could we be more self-absorbed, here on Planet Hollywood? {grumble grumble... slinks back off to cave...}
32.1 * 1.52 = 48.792 = a much more accurate calculation.:) See my post below - the 'journalist' was using numbers from the beginning of this year (my guess is in order to gain ad revenue for Engadget by back-linking to their own content), and thus lacks integrity - something that he/she/they should be called out on. They were emphatically not citing 62% derived from a percentage of market share of IE over FF at this time; the link cited had that as the total percentage of IE in use, I would assume as of the date of publication of the linked article, Jan 02, 2010. The numbers cited are old, and wrong - and that's really all there is to it, FWICS...:D
Looking at that graph, as of this writing, I see FFox @32.1%, and IE @48.7%, so that means that IE has just barely over 150% - not 160%. Quibbling? Sure, but - so were you.;)
Besides that, FTFA, if you read it, the author (self-servingly) links to stats quoted in an article from their blagazine dated back on January 2nd of this year (gotta get that ad revenue, even if it means sloppy journalism!). If he were figuring it the way you suggest, the lead would have been even larger - over 250% of the market share (62.69% IE vs 24.61% FF). So it seems to me that this is simply a case of self-serving poor journalism, something I expect to see more from the likes of 'tech journalists' like Maureen O'Gara or Rob EnDarl...
{snip}it'll take more than this to chip away from IE's 62 percent lead in the browser war,{/snip}
Before we work on getting rid of the whole OS (good idea BTW;) ), we should start by getting the effin' journalists to check their numbers and do some decent reporting - IE isn't even at 62%, much less @ a 62% lead over *any* other browser... The *only* thing IE leads in is, as you have pointed out, default installs.
Is my netbook (AO751h) + the yBook application (Win32 Freeware, also runs under WINE). No, it doesn't have eInk, but with a $55, 9-cell aftermarket battery, I do get ~10-12 hours without having to touch a wall wart. Plus there's a full size keyboard, and I can do just about anything else computer-wise with it that doesn't require huge video capabilities (due to Intel GMA500, which could be better, but is sufficient so far, @ ~6 months ownership). Netbook + battery = $350. More than a dedicated eReader, much cheaper than an iPad, capable of doing more than either/both, it's the best geek tool/toy that I have run across in a long time.
Free thought and active campaigning are 2 different things. Evidence? How about the fact that my comments - which are definitely NOT pro-MS in this case - are getting modded down even 24 hours later, having been at +5 for yesterday. I've seen this happen many times, with content not pro-MS. The MS contingent earmarks posts they don't like/that put their corporate overlords in a bad light, and down-mod them long after the story - and the comments - are no longer front page material. This gets search engine results looking better, ya know... MS has an active contingent here and at other tech blogs to push their agenda, products, and services - why wouldn't they? The very definition of astroturfing, done by shills. Yes, I'm certain there are folks who are pro-MS without being paid to be so as well. Just not so many as the astroturfing campaigns would have the general public believe...
Yes, I do. I also understand weasel language when I see it, like in the first part of the second paragraph, where MS defines that they can back out of the covenant at will. Why put myself in the position to be affected by their whim?
Riiight. And under the Microsoft Covenant to me as a (potential) Moonlight user, they promise not to sue me for using my computer. This covenant applies until, umm, they change their mind about it. After that, of course, all bets are off.
The Mapper at Acme.com was one of the earliest *useful* mapping services on the net/web that I am aware of. It is far different now than it was long ago, however.
So I go to look at this impressive new technology. Guess what?
It's MS Silverlight only/required.
And *that* makes it singularly unimpressive, to me. Sure, there is some kind of support for Silverlight on Linux. But I have enough experience of the company and their practices that I don't want to use their proprietary software on my system. So:
Fail.
Bring it to everyone, without the requirements to become a MicroSerf of some sort, and then I'll be impressed right up there along with the shills and astroturfers.
So, IOW - Microsoft isn't Green. Their upgrade policy *promotes* blatant consumerism and its byproduct, the creation of even more unneeded trash/pollution in the world, by their policy of premature obsolescence of 'otherwise it works just fine' hardware.
The original marketing slogan "Windows - Life without walls (but definitely with wall adapters)." was determined unwieldy, and had to be shortened somewhat...
I'm with you, have thought the same. Maybe it is some kind of genetic survival trait; on a very low level, "Us" being predisposed to the things that carry "Our Genes" over and above "Someone Else's", and this being expressed outwardly...
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I generally just read a dead-tree book when I'm on the can.
Laptops get too hot on the thigh skin, when your pants are down around your ankles...
:D
So obviously you want the number of crashes to be less than or equal to 0 {snip}
Imagine if suddenly one day, *more planes landed than had taken off* that morning...
:D :D
:D
On-topic: People seem to have forgotten that flying is an inherently risky thing to do. Safeguards, safety, and the odds have gotten better, but when you fling your solid self up into a gas, you do so **knowing that you will eventually come down**... - most hopefully in a nice, controlled manner.
We've done many, many things to ensure the controlled come-down, but even so - they don't all work, not all of the time.
"So it goes..."
I live in the deep South East of the US, have my whole life, and in my 30+ years of employment both for others companies large and small and while working on my own as an independent, have never, ever, not even _once_ been asked whether or not I was a Christian (or any other religion), and certainly not within a framework of reference which would have determined whether or not I would get the job. I think you are ***WAY*** over the top with exaggerating this, propagating a stereotype that works great in movies, but has shit-all to do with real life.
;) ). But until the Muslim religion can show us a _worldwide known and recognized leader_ speaking out regularly and vociferously against the violence perpetuated against non-Muslims, then I have a very hard time believing that all they really are is only about peace and love and just plain old gettin' along...
;)
Like yourself, I was raised in a Christ-based church (Lutheran, my father was a minister and deeply religious, as are most of the rest of my family), and also like you, have grown and 'intellectualized' myself (for good or for bad) out of the church/religious belief system in which I was raised. Not surprisingly, I too feel that there are some large parts of religion, especially historically, that are pretty simply just about 'control', for whatever reason. But what you will not find in the recent history of religion by-and-large are numbers of religious fanatics other than Islamists who are ready and willing to go out and kill other people who have a different religious belief system. Who, if I am to believe what I have read, are to some degree *encouraged* to do so - and not only by ancient/old writings, but by clerical leaders within that religions framework even this very day. Worldwide.
No other religion in our day and age regularly has public call-outs for the death of 'unbelievers' like this particular religion does. Period. *That* is what makes it different, and to my mind, a throwback and dangerous. I would really, really, REALLY like to see some ACTION from the moderates I always hear about 2nd or 3rd hand who claim that this religion is of peace and love, but IME I have yet to see any public, noteworthy call for a cessation of the hostility and barbarity, as well as a condemnation of those who would encourage these acts of senseless cruelty.
Where is the big leader in this religion who will risk fatwa and jihad against himself to try and put an end to the attitudes which prevent the ability to live side by side with others who think differently in their personal choice of religions?
I don't see them, not in any significant way. That, to me, says that there may well be something of merit to what those who call them "islamofascists" have to say.
I do have an open mind, and would love to see harmony instead of strife over these things. I bear no ill will against anyone who is a PEACEFUL Muslim and/or otherwise named follower of the precepts of Islam/Mohamed (or any other religious figure, include L Ron, if I have to
So maybe now, having written this, I'd better pack my bags and go live with the boys in their Colorado mansion...
So from this post we learn that AnonClown has never bought much in the way of Apple hardware... ;)
The 'high quality' of Apple products seems to me to almost be urban myth, I have seen many examples which tell another story. AppleDefects.com has a "pretty good" list of their historical quality issues, although I do find it puzzling that their IBook G4 page has no entries, considering how many people suffered through the kernel panic issues they had thanks to faulty design of the wireless card socket* (fixed in gen2, of course).
Mod me down, fanboys, but as an Apple Outsider my impressions of their 'quality', and the very poor way in which they deal with it at times - especially considering the premium that their clientele pay - is what gives me this impression.
*(like the G4 wireless issue, their solution was to buy a new mobo - for ~$800 - when it could be fixed like I have several times with a folded sheet of paper)
...right, and so then the Mods decided:
The beatings will continue until Morale improves...
Good call... Not. {roll_eyes}
7. Profit!!!
(Heh. Sorry, but that one was just floating over the plate...)
Sorry to 'hear' about your troubles, but I don't think you'll be able to talk this crowd into doing a voluntary DDOS of the site...
Why not create a web page explaining all this, so that when you get a contact from an irate ex-customer, you can simply direct them there. I would imagine that any current customers affected are pleased with your service, and so a brief explanation to them in which they find you are not really billing them anything would be enough to smooth things over.
Steps to avoid smelling "irrational butthurt":
1. Remove your nose from between his ass cheeks.
2. Don't put your nose back in between his ass cheeks.
3. Don't smell things, including your fingers, which have been between someone else's ass cheeks.
4. Follow these same rules with your own ass cheeks, just in case you are having irrational butthurt as well.
That's it, really. HTH!
Same here - economically a traditionally low-earning area in the Deep South, technologically - well, most folks here can't even spell that word. But we have a dedicated room in the library with (~a dozen) new rigs and what seem to me as a non-gamer to be recent titles with an emphasis on shoot-em-up type games.
;)
Yet when I offer to use the facilities in order to teach a class _for free_ to these same people about how to use Open Source technologies in order that they might be able to take a 'clunker' system home and know enough to actually get some real work done with it, well, there is no response beyond whatever I get at the point in time of offering.
These are people who need instruction to do "Yahoo email" or "Facebook classes" {roll_eyes}, yet they can sit down for a few hours and game away in what is otherwise intended to be a place of learning? Where - what - is the priority here? It sure doesn't seem to be much of one for developing intelligence, problem solving abilities, and a technological skill set that can be used in the day-to-day work world that most of us live in.
OTOH, they are learning a skill set which might make them mighty useful as 'digital warriors' of the future, where they sit at home and kill enemies far afield by designating them as targets on their monitor...
But if I follow that thought to a conclusion, maybe *I'd* be better off learning how to make tin-foil hats.
I don't want my OS to be interesting, for fuck's sake. I want it very predictable and unobtrusive.
Here, here. Glad to see someone else who doesn't give a shit that an "OS be tightly integrated with/for social networking"? Why is staring at our electronic bellybuttons so frikkin' important??? Could we be more self-absorbed, here on Planet Hollywood? {grumble grumble... slinks back off to cave...}
The *only* thing IE leads that much in is, as you have pointed out, default installs.
Bold added for clarity, HTH. My apologies; I didn't mean to write so far above your level of comprehension.
32.1 * 1.52 = 48.792 = a much more accurate calculation. :) See my post below - the 'journalist' was using numbers from the beginning of this year (my guess is in order to gain ad revenue for Engadget by back-linking to their own content), and thus lacks integrity - something that he/she/they should be called out on. They were emphatically not citing 62% derived from a percentage of market share of IE over FF at this time; the link cited had that as the total percentage of IE in use, I would assume as of the date of publication of the linked article, Jan 02, 2010. The numbers cited are old, and wrong - and that's really all there is to it, FWICS... :D
Looking at that graph, as of this writing, I see FFox @32.1%, and IE @48.7%, so that means that IE has just barely over 150% - not 160%. Quibbling? Sure, but - so were you. ;)
Besides that, FTFA, if you read it, the author (self-servingly) links to stats quoted in an article from their blagazine dated back on January 2nd of this year (gotta get that ad revenue, even if it means sloppy journalism!). If he were figuring it the way you suggest, the lead would have been even larger - over 250% of the market share (62.69% IE vs 24.61% FF). So it seems to me that this is simply a case of self-serving poor journalism, something I expect to see more from the likes of 'tech journalists' like Maureen O'Gara or Rob EnDarl...
{snip}it'll take more than this to chip away from IE's 62 percent lead in the browser war,{/snip}
Before we work on getting rid of the whole OS (good idea BTW ;) ), we should start by getting the effin' journalists to check their numbers and do some decent reporting - IE isn't even at 62%, much less @ a 62% lead over *any* other browser... The *only* thing IE leads in is, as you have pointed out, default installs.
This post is completely wrong WRT the mouse.
And I was playing DRM-free mp3 music long before there was an iPod or iTunes.
Apple might be 'frist' in some things, but not much...
Is my netbook (AO751h) + the yBook application (Win32 Freeware, also runs under WINE). No, it doesn't have eInk, but with a $55, 9-cell aftermarket battery, I do get ~10-12 hours without having to touch a wall wart. Plus there's a full size keyboard, and I can do just about anything else computer-wise with it that doesn't require huge video capabilities (due to Intel GMA500, which could be better, but is sufficient so far, @ ~6 months ownership). Netbook + battery = $350. More than a dedicated eReader, much cheaper than an iPad, capable of doing more than either/both, it's the best geek tool/toy that I have run across in a long time.
anonymous coward. anonymous coward anonymous coward. anonymous coward anonymous coward anonymous coward. anonymous coward.
So there, how do you like them apples, anonymous coward? Huh? What? What??? I can't hear you...
Free thought and active campaigning are 2 different things. Evidence? How about the fact that my comments - which are definitely NOT pro-MS in this case - are getting modded down even 24 hours later, having been at +5 for yesterday. I've seen this happen many times, with content not pro-MS. The MS contingent earmarks posts they don't like/that put their corporate overlords in a bad light, and down-mod them long after the story - and the comments - are no longer front page material. This gets search engine results looking better, ya know... MS has an active contingent here and at other tech blogs to push their agenda, products, and services - why wouldn't they? The very definition of astroturfing, done by shills. Yes, I'm certain there are folks who are pro-MS without being paid to be so as well. Just not so many as the astroturfing campaigns would have the general public believe...
Yes, I do. I also understand weasel language when I see it, like in the first part of the second paragraph, where MS defines that they can back out of the covenant at will. Why put myself in the position to be affected by their whim?
Riiight. And under the Microsoft Covenant to me as a (potential) Moonlight user, they promise not to sue me for using my computer. This covenant applies until, umm, they change their mind about it. After that, of course, all bets are off.
No thanks.
The Mapper at Acme.com was one of the earliest *useful* mapping services on the net/web that I am aware of. It is far different now than it was long ago, however.
So I go to look at this impressive new technology. Guess what?
It's MS Silverlight only/required.
And *that* makes it singularly unimpressive, to me. Sure, there is some kind of support for Silverlight on Linux. But I have enough experience of the company and their practices that I don't want to use their proprietary software on my system. So:
Fail.
Bring it to everyone, without the requirements to become a MicroSerf of some sort, and then I'll be impressed right up there along with the shills and astroturfers.
So, IOW - Microsoft isn't Green. Their upgrade policy *promotes* blatant consumerism and its byproduct, the creation of even more unneeded trash/pollution in the world, by their policy of premature obsolescence of 'otherwise it works just fine' hardware.
The original marketing slogan "Windows - Life without walls (but definitely with wall adapters) ." was determined unwieldy, and had to be shortened somewhat...
:D
I'm with you, have thought the same. Maybe it is some kind of genetic survival trait; on a very low level, "Us" being predisposed to the things that carry "Our Genes" over and above "Someone Else's", and this being expressed outwardly...