Getting larger? Only a tiny bit. The 7 Start button is taller and the window controls are a little bigger but that's it. It's a decent response to increasing screen resolutions.
They've been putting less and less effort into the classis theme since Vista.
The Vista/7 interface is better anyways, the only time I went with classic is with XP, because the Fisher-Price theme was just uglier and didn't function differently.
If Ubuntu can finish its LSD trip in time for the Windows 8 release and go back to being a solid desktop distro, this could be the best thing for desktop Linux since Vista.
Do all of you know how to fix an air conditioner, change your break pads, build a computer
For me: No, yes, probably better than you do.
Now how about this: How about some dude who sees you fixing an air conditioner/ changing brake pads / building a PC says it's not really broken / worn down / obsolete and you're just trying to extract extra money out of suckers, that your whole profession is a sham. He says something asinine like that the AC unit is a solid-state system that can run fine with no gas in it, or that car brakes work on an electromagnetic principle and don't have friction surfaces, or that operating systems have some kind of timebomb feature that causes them to consume more system resources over time and can be reset with a secret key combination, such that someone in on the global computer building conspiracy could run Windows 7 on a 486. How much respect will you have for that guy? Better be lots or you'll be an AC/car/computer ELITIST.
I have a hard time finding any readily accessible research that conclusively proves the theory. It's like the climate scientists are hiding it someplace and we just have their word to go on. Seems fishy when you consider this is a highly political topic.
You're not going to find any one scientific paper that covers the whole theory, that would be much too broad a subject. You can start by looking up the greenhouse effect though.
The idea that any group of humans can achieve anything as a "leaderless collective" is a fantasy totally at odds with every prior historical instance of collective human activity. It doesn't happen.
Yep that's why angry mobs are just a scary campfire story.
If there is a defined leadership group they're damn well hidden and are somehow able to anonymously steer the will of the collective despite being a minority.
So either the FBI is ultra-brilliant and knows more than everyone else or they're just misunderstanding Anonymous as law enforcement usually does.
Also it's odd that they'd use speech patterns and general writings to analyze a group known for speaking in memes.
And we used arc lights before that (that are even easier to produce), yet nobody today is extolling their virtues. We should have dropped incandescent bulbs for common indoor use as soon as fluorescents were affordable.
Also good luck getting that tungsten you need for the incandescent bulb filament without releasing any toxins.
HFT servers have rack units with hot-swappable CPUs. They're considered consumable. They overclock them to high heaven and pop in new ones when they burn out. I wouldn't be surprised if they've come up with a magazine / chain loading system by now...
Yep in that game not accidentally shooting civilians was something you had to deal with constantly throughout the game. The bad guys were dressed like civilians and often hiding among them.
A lot of those Virtua Cop - style shooters also have civilians who will pop out in the middle of a firefight and you lose a life for shooting them.
I always hated incandescent light bulbs. They turn the vast majority of the energy that goes into them into waste heat. It's a disgusting waste. If they were meant to heat things it would make sense, but they're supposed to turn electricity into light, when light is just the byproduct. It's like burning gasoline in an open pit to warm your hands, or using a high-end gaming PC as a home router.
I think outlawing them is a bit much, but they're awful devices.
Imagine yourself as an Average Joe who just managed to grind his way through a few basic high-school science courses. You don't know or care about science, it was just a course you had to take, and ideally would have liked to skip. Sort of like gym class is to geeks.
Most people were first introduced to the theory of global warming by Al Gore (already a Bad Guy to conservatives) telling them that their Dodge 3500 is killing polar bears and going to flood New York. BUT, they could prevent this by buying carbon credits (I think we can all agree that the current implementations of carbon credit schemes are...flawed, at best). Oh and he owns a carbon credit company but he didn't mention that bit. Then he flies off in his private jet back to his giant house with a heated pool. Oh and by the way, solving this problem will involve CHANGE and might require HIGHER TAXES.
So now Joe Average understandably thinks this whole global warming thing looks mighty fishy and doesn't like the implications. He goes online to do a little research and has a few choices where to get his info from (assuming he didn't unintentionally use a biased search string like "global warming scam"): he can go to these sciencey websites using gigantic words, or he can go to these little blogs that say CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SCAM and are reinforcing all his worst suspicions. He spends the night reading through these blogs, and it all makes sense! That science stuff is confusing but this explains the whole conspiracy in a language he can understand. And look! Just follow the money! As long as this climate change thing is real that means money for scientists researching it and for renewable energy companies! It HAS to be a scam!
The problem is that to climate denialists, once you are a climate scientist you've already "turned political." It's inherent to the profession according to their view (although oddly enough, the few scientists (maybe I should put quotes around that) who put forward theories that suggest that the currently accepted theories are flawed never get this label...).
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How is that a mistake?
It restricted his choice of operating systems to those that Apple supports.
Why?
He seemed to be interested in keeping his operating system choices open.
Getting larger? Only a tiny bit. The 7 Start button is taller and the window controls are a little bigger but that's it. It's a decent response to increasing screen resolutions.
A closed-source multi-arch operating system, this is going to be entertaining...
That's like defending your purchase of a Pinto by saying it was better than a Lada.
Well we just rolled out 7 at my office so I guess this place is safe.
They've been putting less and less effort into the classis theme since Vista.
The Vista/7 interface is better anyways, the only time I went with classic is with XP, because the Fisher-Price theme was just uglier and didn't function differently.
Your mistake was buying an Apple digital audio player. Get one that supports USB mass storage mode next time.
And watch out for the cameras coming out nowadays that don't support USB mass storage mode...
Look up the "Zune" for a chuckle.
The only time I ever bought a computer with an OS already on it, I wiped the OS it came with and installed from scratch anyway.
And that laptop came with a recovery CD.
If Ubuntu can finish its LSD trip in time for the Windows 8 release and go back to being a solid desktop distro, this could be the best thing for desktop Linux since Vista.
Do all of you know how to fix an air conditioner, change your break pads, build a computer
For me: No, yes, probably better than you do.
Now how about this: How about some dude who sees you fixing an air conditioner/ changing brake pads / building a PC says it's not really broken / worn down / obsolete and you're just trying to extract extra money out of suckers, that your whole profession is a sham. He says something asinine like that the AC unit is a solid-state system that can run fine with no gas in it, or that car brakes work on an electromagnetic principle and don't have friction surfaces, or that operating systems have some kind of timebomb feature that causes them to consume more system resources over time and can be reset with a secret key combination, such that someone in on the global computer building conspiracy could run Windows 7 on a 486. How much respect will you have for that guy? Better be lots or you'll be an AC/car/computer ELITIST.
I have a hard time finding any readily accessible research that conclusively proves the theory. It's like the climate scientists are hiding it someplace and we just have their word to go on. Seems fishy when you consider this is a highly political topic.
You're not going to find any one scientific paper that covers the whole theory, that would be much too broad a subject. You can start by looking up the greenhouse effect though.
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The idea that any group of humans can achieve anything as a "leaderless collective" is a fantasy totally at odds with every prior historical instance of collective human activity. It doesn't happen.
Yep that's why angry mobs are just a scary campfire story.
If there is a defined leadership group they're damn well hidden and are somehow able to anonymously steer the will of the collective despite being a minority.
So either the FBI is ultra-brilliant and knows more than everyone else or they're just misunderstanding Anonymous as law enforcement usually does.
Also it's odd that they'd use speech patterns and general writings to analyze a group known for speaking in memes.
And we used arc lights before that (that are even easier to produce), yet nobody today is extolling their virtues. We should have dropped incandescent bulbs for common indoor use as soon as fluorescents were affordable.
Also good luck getting that tungsten you need for the incandescent bulb filament without releasing any toxins.
HFT servers have rack units with hot-swappable CPUs. They're considered consumable. They overclock them to high heaven and pop in new ones when they burn out. I wouldn't be surprised if they've come up with a magazine / chain loading system by now...
I at least lol'd at your creativity.
Also Goatse is on a Russian domain now? In Soviet Russia, Goatse disgusted by YOU!
Yep in that game not accidentally shooting civilians was something you had to deal with constantly throughout the game. The bad guys were dressed like civilians and often hiding among them.
A lot of those Virtua Cop - style shooters also have civilians who will pop out in the middle of a firefight and you lose a life for shooting them.
There's a Blackwater game coming out for the Xbox360, you may see games with this in it soon!
I always hated incandescent light bulbs. They turn the vast majority of the energy that goes into them into waste heat. It's a disgusting waste. If they were meant to heat things it would make sense, but they're supposed to turn electricity into light, when light is just the byproduct. It's like burning gasoline in an open pit to warm your hands, or using a high-end gaming PC as a home router.
I think outlawing them is a bit much, but they're awful devices.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
Knock yourself out buddy.
It's Al Gore's fault.
Imagine yourself as an Average Joe who just managed to grind his way through a few basic high-school science courses. You don't know or care about science, it was just a course you had to take, and ideally would have liked to skip. Sort of like gym class is to geeks.
Most people were first introduced to the theory of global warming by Al Gore (already a Bad Guy to conservatives) telling them that their Dodge 3500 is killing polar bears and going to flood New York. BUT, they could prevent this by buying carbon credits (I think we can all agree that the current implementations of carbon credit schemes are...flawed, at best). Oh and he owns a carbon credit company but he didn't mention that bit. Then he flies off in his private jet back to his giant house with a heated pool. Oh and by the way, solving this problem will involve CHANGE and might require HIGHER TAXES.
So now Joe Average understandably thinks this whole global warming thing looks mighty fishy and doesn't like the implications. He goes online to do a little research and has a few choices where to get his info from (assuming he didn't unintentionally use a biased search string like "global warming scam"): he can go to these sciencey websites using gigantic words, or he can go to these little blogs that say CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SCAM and are reinforcing all his worst suspicions. He spends the night reading through these blogs, and it all makes sense! That science stuff is confusing but this explains the whole conspiracy in a language he can understand. And look! Just follow the money! As long as this climate change thing is real that means money for scientists researching it and for renewable energy companies! It HAS to be a scam!
And a climate denialist is born.
If only that could fit into 120 characters...
The problem is that to climate denialists, once you are a climate scientist you've already "turned political." It's inherent to the profession according to their view (although oddly enough, the few scientists (maybe I should put quotes around that) who put forward theories that suggest that the currently accepted theories are flawed never get this label...).