What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?
Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.
I have at least 15 under my control in a non commercial environment. Fortunately only 1 is an internet connected W10 machine, with nothing personal on it at all. 5 W10 networked machines but air gapped, and the rest linux or OS X. Guess which one computer is a pain in the ass. Hint, not any Unixy ones.
Oh, and a cute little RPi 3 running Ubuntu Mate. I have a subscription plan for Apache Office on them all. They update AO and I download and install it. They have a money back guarantee as well.
To be fair, the ticks could have tagged along on the animals just fine. And stagnant water on the deck or in storage could have harbored plenty of mosquito larvae.
What a global flood has to do with the meteor extinction event, I don't know. I know people like to inject off-topic jabs at religion every time dinosaurs are mentioned, but it's tired and not even funny here.
Oddly enough, the post that started this off topic foray is now marked +4 Funny.
As for relevance, a global flood would be another form of extinction event. Regardless, at one point most adherents thought of it as allegory until the relatively recent literal interpretation folks demanded that it was literal.
I suspect a possibility of the Mediterranean sea flooding event such as one that happened around 7600 years ago, with the concurrent attributions as a punishment from the Abrahamic deity. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo...
And at the time, when the People of the middle east were not spread out over the entire world, it might have seemed like a flood that covered the entire world, or perhaps just grew in the telling.
But to answer your question of why people take those digs, it is because of just how preposterous the claims are for the literal Noachian flood.
And since this place claims to be science http://creationmuseum.org/ it is fair game. Especiallly skin they claim the science of humans and dinosaurs co-existing.
Hah! No-one is gullible enough to still believe such nonsense are they?
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and bitchslap that punk bastard Noah for bringing mosquitos and ticks on the ark.
Also, I'd like to see all of the animals like the kangaroos, as they finished swimming the thousands of miles across the Indian ocean to the middle east so they wouldn't drown in the flood.
But sad to say, there are indeed people that believe that there was a flood that covered the entire world, at least up to the level of Everest for a short time. Aside from the questions of where did the water come from, and where did it go afterwards, my calculations show that the amount of water that would be required to do that over a 40 day period would be coming down at such a rate that anyone hoping to survive better have a supply of scuba gear, because it would have been a solid wall of water. The ark would have been immediately swamped and sunk
But if you go fundamentalist old testament "Christian", the ARK myth is just one of many silly things you have to believe.
And not all dinosaur species died out. The avian dinosaurs survived. So we have most mammal lines dying out, and most dinosaur lines dying out. In short: "giant meteor killed most, but not all, species on Earth"
Exactly. Now the hypothesis that small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and the avian critters survived on dead plants and seeds is very plausible.
it's going to be difficult to prove that exactly, but it doesn't take anything magical for the predisposed and lucky to survive on what they might have eaten anyway, while the earth regenerated from the same seeds. I see the squirrels, chipmunks and birds doing that in the backyard every day, and anyone seeing a gorgeous pileated woodpecker will get the bird/dinosaur connection immediately.
Which brings to mind the paleontological issue I'm more interested in lately - that many dinosaurs were feathered. I'm fascinated by the possibility that rather than ugly leatherbags, that dinosurs might hve been colorful feathered megabirds in appearance.
According to that link's incredibly obnoxious video, last dinosaurs roamed the land 650 million years BC. They can't even do metric calculations on years!
So was the asteroid really that bad? Honestly, I just don't care anymore. What I do care about is the pseudoscience passed off as facts as if the scientific community is doing more than trying to tell a consistent story based on a minuscule amount of evidence. The sad thing is scientists can't agree on theories when there is a preponderance of evidence. What hope do we have of knowing something that happened to living things millions of years ago. Quit sensationalizing this stuff.
Sounds like you need religion, not science.
I think you crave consistency, and unchanging thought, which religion by it's nature provides.
Regardless, the idea that dinosaurs were on the decline is not contradicting of a meteor strike. It might have been the event that ended dinosaurs as the alpha critters on the planet, but in fact it didn't even completely wipe out the dinosaurs, they are still among us as birds.
This idea that mammals were largely decimated is perfectly consistent with a large asteroid strike as well.
And rather than getting distressed as the pieces of the puzzle are filled in, some of us get in a more celebratory mood as we gain more evidence. The various fields with their individual facts correlating with other disciplines, with geology, physics, paleontology, and often others converging on a likely scenario, and then further research showing the plausibility or lack of plausibility are just plain exciting. Even when wrong, it teaches us which way we don't want to look in the future.
What causes you distress, causes many of us excitement. But it is knowledge versus being certain of something
Which is why I suggest the surety of religion for you, especially of the fundamentalist kind.
Any true "moral dilemma" would have to include information about all the parties involved.
Neither the Government nor the Tech has the right to make a moral decision for someone nor do they have enough information to do so.
Should a Nobel Winning Physicist be sacrificed in order to save a car load of Gang Bangers on their way to a Drive By Shooting?
What if that Hypothetical Crowd was a bunch on NeoNazis?
Morality is a Human thing and can't be programmed.
And there you touch upon some of the messy moral morass. The US, in increasingly reactionary fashion, demands fault and punishment, and this will not go away simply because it is a computer making the decision.
This will be the hardest problem to solve, even if the AV fans deny it is a problem at all. No doubt at all that accidents will be reduced, but mechanical components fail, road conditions can become treacherous, and not all animals or children have autonomous control.
And since the human, which is now just a passenger in a vehicle he has no control over, can hardly be held responsible for any accidents, not only do we have a dillemma that does not fit in with our social mores, but will need a remarkable shift in attitudes, one that does not fit with our reactionary nature
If the hottie on the weather channel is telling people they should stay indoors, should the car refuse to start ala "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!"? The list just grows longer the more we think about it.
And anyone belittling or dismissing the problem simply isn't getting it.
Yes, but when the oil painting instructional video cuts away from showing painting to show you three cute squirrel babies that the artist is raising, that's content that could be more efficiently presented.
But that is when you make a clear and concise video that only has the relevent parts and no more.
These jerks that take their own free time to try to help people will then go away.
I have different standards for professional videos and some backyard mechanic with a handheld explaining how to change out the DISA valve on a BMW.
Bingo. If its NOT entertainment, I'd rather not watch it at all, and just read a transcript.
Say that you're watching a video on oil painting techniques. I don't think you would get the full effect of just reading the transcript.
I've also found that in dealing with software instructional, it helps to actually see the menus that you have to go through. I'll say and illustrate Third menu item from the left, Fifth item down while it's on the screen. Well versed people won't need that, but then agin, they probably don't need the video in the first place
Bingo. If its NOT entertainment, I'd rather not watch it at all, and just read a transcript.
The only reason I fast forward video is that it has shitty information density, and 99.9% of all video is extremely poorly bookmarked to facilitate you getting to the part you want.
For example, youtube... you find an album, and then there are usually time code links to each track.
All instructional, walkthru, tutorial, informational, educational etc videos should have that list:
0:00 - pointless intro
0:15 - i introduce myself for far too long
1:35 - i introduce the topic for far too long
2:54 - i chatter about something and irrelevant
3:05 - this is what you came to see
3:17 - i chatter about my other videos
5:02 - something else random
5:20 - pointless outtro
You have some excellent points. It's important to remember that most of thee people are amateurs and just posting to try to help others. Some times a shaky phone camera, sometimes an ego trip. I don't care a huge amount since I'm after the info, not much else.
As well, communication skills are a gift, and some folks never seem to get them.
I do instructional videos deling with computers and Software defined radio, and often instruct people to pause on occasion in order to carry out the instructions.
But the intros should be short, I never introduce myself except in some text in the title - what is the point of that? I'm an ugly fuck, and doing this to help, not salve my ego. I try to keep everything as short as possible, except for the credits, because there are often a lot of people to thank, and by that time, people with short attention spans are long gone.
Also the final point is that when all the criticisms of a video are compiled, someone has a complaint about every second of them, so you have to develop a thick skin in such matters.
Sure, but this time it isn't you deciding. This time it is me, and I say that you are a threat.
So tell me - were you lying? I try to take people at their face value, and you can rest assured thart if I told somone they were a threat, I would mean it, and take all legal actions of reporting them to law enforcement.
Such are dumbasses, eh?
Your rhetoric is an example of exactly how people get themselves into trouble on the internetz. A minor example, and no doubt - considering that I don't suspect you plan to turn me in on a whim, and I have no reason at all to suspect you are any sort of threat. But people do crazy shit like post how they will kill someone, or swear allegience to trrst groups, or how they want to find someone willing to kill their spouse.
But seriously dude, you wrote what you wrote, and texts to not convey sarcasm. I might be a dumbass, but not in that manner.
So stay calm, don't do dumb shit, and keep the tone civil, or at least smart.
Sure, but this time it isn't you deciding. This time it is me, and I say that you are a threat.
No system is perfect, and sure as shootin' the No Fly list isn't. But your idea that people are going to accuse others of being terrorists - you have the cites of exactly how often that happens? We see all too many times people trying to make perfection the enemy of good.
Indeed, even in this case, the FBI had two incidences of the Orlando gunman being reported to them, and didn't find anything actionable, even when he tried to purchase police grade body armor. Sounds like it takes a bit to actually get yourself dinged.
And I have no doubt that there have been cases of people turning in others frivolously, and Law enforcement might look a little askance at that, so probably not a real good idea to put your threat to the test.
No doubt. And Joe Blow at thte corner gas who uses QuickBooks to run his business has an awesome server farm out back. And 5 IT people and a compsec guy as well. Because if you don't, and Microsoft fucks your computer up - it's your fault.
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I I told you all this was coming last year and you laughed at me.
Mostly because you're a silly punce.
What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?
Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.
I have at least 15 under my control in a non commercial environment. Fortunately only 1 is an internet connected W10 machine, with nothing personal on it at all. 5 W10 networked machines but air gapped, and the rest linux or OS X. Guess which one computer is a pain in the ass. Hint, not any Unixy ones.
Oh, and a cute little RPi 3 running Ubuntu Mate. I have a subscription plan for Apache Office on them all. They update AO and I download and install it. They have a money back guarantee as well.
I'd rather buy office and use an out of date version for years and years than have to be constantly feeding the meter to do any work
And you can, they still offer that option and likely will for at least the next few years...
Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
To be fair, the ticks could have tagged along on the animals just fine. And stagnant water on the deck or in storage could have harbored plenty of mosquito larvae.
What a global flood has to do with the meteor extinction event, I don't know. I know people like to inject off-topic jabs at religion every time dinosaurs are mentioned, but it's tired and not even funny here.
Oddly enough, the post that started this off topic foray is now marked +4 Funny.
As for relevance, a global flood would be another form of extinction event. Regardless, at one point most adherents thought of it as allegory until the relatively recent literal interpretation folks demanded that it was literal.
I suspect a possibility of the Mediterranean sea flooding event such as one that happened around 7600 years ago, with the concurrent attributions as a punishment from the Abrahamic deity. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo...
Similar floods have been mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, or perhaps Epic of Atrahasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And at the time, when the People of the middle east were not spread out over the entire world, it might have seemed like a flood that covered the entire world, or perhaps just grew in the telling.
But to answer your question of why people take those digs, it is because of just how preposterous the claims are for the literal Noachian flood.
And since this place claims to be science http://creationmuseum.org/ it is fair game. Especiallly skin they claim the science of humans and dinosaurs co-existing.
Hah! No-one is gullible enough to still believe such nonsense are they?
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and bitchslap that punk bastard Noah for bringing mosquitos and ticks on the ark.
Also, I'd like to see all of the animals like the kangaroos, as they finished swimming the thousands of miles across the Indian ocean to the middle east so they wouldn't drown in the flood.
But sad to say, there are indeed people that believe that there was a flood that covered the entire world, at least up to the level of Everest for a short time. Aside from the questions of where did the water come from, and where did it go afterwards, my calculations show that the amount of water that would be required to do that over a 40 day period would be coming down at such a rate that anyone hoping to survive better have a supply of scuba gear, because it would have been a solid wall of water. The ark would have been immediately swamped and sunk
But if you go fundamentalist old testament "Christian", the ARK myth is just one of many silly things you have to believe.
For example, climate change.
So do anonymous cowards.
And not all dinosaur species died out. The avian dinosaurs survived. So we have most mammal lines dying out, and most dinosaur lines dying out. In short: "giant meteor killed most, but not all, species on Earth"
Exactly. Now the hypothesis that small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and the avian critters survived on dead plants and seeds is very plausible. it's going to be difficult to prove that exactly, but it doesn't take anything magical for the predisposed and lucky to survive on what they might have eaten anyway, while the earth regenerated from the same seeds. I see the squirrels, chipmunks and birds doing that in the backyard every day, and anyone seeing a gorgeous pileated woodpecker will get the bird/dinosaur connection immediately.
Which brings to mind the paleontological issue I'm more interested in lately - that many dinosaurs were feathered. I'm fascinated by the possibility that rather than ugly leatherbags, that dinosurs might hve been colorful feathered megabirds in appearance.
According to that link's incredibly obnoxious video, last dinosaurs roamed the land 650 million years BC. They can't even do metric calculations on years!
I fed the dinosaurs in my back yard this morning.
So was the asteroid really that bad? Honestly, I just don't care anymore. What I do care about is the pseudoscience passed off as facts as if the scientific community is doing more than trying to tell a consistent story based on a minuscule amount of evidence. The sad thing is scientists can't agree on theories when there is a preponderance of evidence. What hope do we have of knowing something that happened to living things millions of years ago. Quit sensationalizing this stuff.
Sounds like you need religion, not science.
I think you crave consistency, and unchanging thought, which religion by it's nature provides.
Regardless, the idea that dinosaurs were on the decline is not contradicting of a meteor strike. It might have been the event that ended dinosaurs as the alpha critters on the planet, but in fact it didn't even completely wipe out the dinosaurs, they are still among us as birds.
This idea that mammals were largely decimated is perfectly consistent with a large asteroid strike as well.
And rather than getting distressed as the pieces of the puzzle are filled in, some of us get in a more celebratory mood as we gain more evidence. The various fields with their individual facts correlating with other disciplines, with geology, physics, paleontology, and often others converging on a likely scenario, and then further research showing the plausibility or lack of plausibility are just plain exciting. Even when wrong, it teaches us which way we don't want to look in the future.
What causes you distress, causes many of us excitement. But it is knowledge versus being certain of something
Which is why I suggest the surety of religion for you, especially of the fundamentalist kind.
Well yes that is true. But this is about smartphone/computer messaging.
And you'll have it on your superior Windows phones. Just have to follow Microsoft 's rules.
It's Microsoft's fault that there is no iMessage client for Windows Phone?
Probably. It's asshattery to not.
But from a marketing point of view, it's the right thing to do! Now you only need to make it not suck. That can't be hard, right?
Signed, Microsoft marketing department
It is just like a nationwide wireless network. How hard can it be to not put up wires?
I have zero interest in texting with any product.
Well why didn't you say so earlier, and texting wouldn't even have been invented?
It should read "from both people using WIndows on Phones, 0.0% want this"
FTFY
Although if they talk one into wanting it, the number will increase dramatically.
Developing an deploying features that nobody wants......
Having M$ disable this feature is like having an Apple iPhone without a standard headphone jack.
Captain ridiculous coomparison called and said that comparison was insane.
What's AIM got to do with smartphones? This isn't about AIM/ICQ/etc, this is about smartphone/computer messaging.
Oh - from the posts I thought it was how iTunes was a piece of shit, and Apple sucks.
FAGS
Failsafe
Autonomous
Geospatial
System?
Any true "moral dilemma" would have to include information about all the parties involved.
Neither the Government nor the Tech has the right to make a moral decision for someone nor do they have enough information to do so.
Should a Nobel Winning Physicist be sacrificed in order to save a car load of Gang Bangers on their way to a Drive By Shooting?
What if that Hypothetical Crowd was a bunch on NeoNazis?
Morality is a Human thing and can't be programmed.
And there you touch upon some of the messy moral morass. The US, in increasingly reactionary fashion, demands fault and punishment, and this will not go away simply because it is a computer making the decision.
This will be the hardest problem to solve, even if the AV fans deny it is a problem at all. No doubt at all that accidents will be reduced, but mechanical components fail, road conditions can become treacherous, and not all animals or children have autonomous control.
And since the human, which is now just a passenger in a vehicle he has no control over, can hardly be held responsible for any accidents, not only do we have a dillemma that does not fit in with our social mores, but will need a remarkable shift in attitudes, one that does not fit with our reactionary nature If the hottie on the weather channel is telling people they should stay indoors, should the car refuse to start ala "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!"? The list just grows longer the more we think about it.
And anyone belittling or dismissing the problem simply isn't getting it.
3654617? Kids today...
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Posting just to see what my number is - I had no idea it meant anything. Ooo 1175323.
I suck..
Yes, but when the oil painting instructional video cuts away from showing painting to show you three cute squirrel babies that the artist is raising, that's content that could be more efficiently presented.
But that is when you make a clear and concise video that only has the relevent parts and no more.
These jerks that take their own free time to try to help people will then go away.
I have different standards for professional videos and some backyard mechanic with a handheld explaining how to change out the DISA valve on a BMW.
Say that you're watching a video on oil painting techniques. I don't think you would get the full effect of just reading the transcript.
I've also found that in dealing with software instructional, it helps to actually see the menus that you have to go through. I'll say and illustrate Third menu item from the left, Fifth item down while it's on the screen. Well versed people won't need that, but then agin, they probably don't need the video in the first place
Bingo. If its NOT entertainment, I'd rather not watch it at all, and just read a transcript.
The only reason I fast forward video is that it has shitty information density, and 99.9% of all video is extremely poorly bookmarked to facilitate you getting to the part you want.
For example, youtube... you find an album, and then there are usually time code links to each track.
All instructional, walkthru, tutorial, informational, educational etc videos should have that list:
0:00 - pointless intro 0:15 - i introduce myself for far too long 1:35 - i introduce the topic for far too long 2:54 - i chatter about something and irrelevant 3:05 - this is what you came to see 3:17 - i chatter about my other videos 5:02 - something else random 5:20 - pointless outtro
You have some excellent points. It's important to remember that most of thee people are amateurs and just posting to try to help others. Some times a shaky phone camera, sometimes an ego trip. I don't care a huge amount since I'm after the info, not much else.
As well, communication skills are a gift, and some folks never seem to get them.
I do instructional videos deling with computers and Software defined radio, and often instruct people to pause on occasion in order to carry out the instructions.
But the intros should be short, I never introduce myself except in some text in the title - what is the point of that? I'm an ugly fuck, and doing this to help, not salve my ego. I try to keep everything as short as possible, except for the credits, because there are often a lot of people to thank, and by that time, people with short attention spans are long gone.
Also the final point is that when all the criticisms of a video are compiled, someone has a complaint about every second of them, so you have to develop a thick skin in such matters.
I am not making a threat you fucking dumbass.
As you wrote:
Sure, but this time it isn't you deciding. This time it is me, and I say that you are a threat.
So tell me - were you lying? I try to take people at their face value, and you can rest assured thart if I told somone they were a threat, I would mean it, and take all legal actions of reporting them to law enforcement.
Such are dumbasses, eh?
Your rhetoric is an example of exactly how people get themselves into trouble on the internetz. A minor example, and no doubt - considering that I don't suspect you plan to turn me in on a whim, and I have no reason at all to suspect you are any sort of threat. But people do crazy shit like post how they will kill someone, or swear allegience to trrst groups, or how they want to find someone willing to kill their spouse.
But seriously dude, you wrote what you wrote, and texts to not convey sarcasm. I might be a dumbass, but not in that manner.
So stay calm, don't do dumb shit, and keep the tone civil, or at least smart.
Sure, but this time it isn't you deciding. This time it is me, and I say that you are a threat.
No system is perfect, and sure as shootin' the No Fly list isn't. But your idea that people are going to accuse others of being terrorists - you have the cites of exactly how often that happens? We see all too many times people trying to make perfection the enemy of good.
Indeed, even in this case, the FBI had two incidences of the Orlando gunman being reported to them, and didn't find anything actionable, even when he tried to purchase police grade body armor. Sounds like it takes a bit to actually get yourself dinged.
And I have no doubt that there have been cases of people turning in others frivolously, and Law enforcement might look a little askance at that, so probably not a real good idea to put your threat to the test.
You sound blisteringly incompetent.
No doubt. And Joe Blow at thte corner gas who uses QuickBooks to run his business has an awesome server farm out back. And 5 IT people and a compsec guy as well. Because if you don't, and Microsoft fucks your computer up - it's your fault.