Looks like I need to stock up on mice as well as keyboards now. This is the only keyboard layout I will accept: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126013 (I could do without the stupid circle bumps and ms logo on the windows key, though)
Notice the non-retarded layout - nothing is curved, separated, or oddly angled for some bullshit ergonomic reasons. The return key isn't a fucking sea cow, and backspace isn't a damned midget. Backslash is right where it should be, and it has a respectable size. (Sandslash is right where he should be too, in my pokeball, bitches.) I've got a 3(horizontal)x2(vertical) layout for my home bank, I've got a full numpad, and I still have my scroll lock and pause/break keys.
For mice, I want two real buttons. A scroll wheel is nice to have, too. And if it's there, is should be clickable. Give it a left/right tilt if you want, but I don't give a shit. 2 buttons on the left side by my thumb are fine too, but anything else is overkill. Sorry lefties.
Don't want a fucking led screen, fucking weights, fucking 8 million dpi, or whatever other bullshit the think of. I won't be doing fucking gestures instead of a single button click.
Because the OS certainly has an ability to slow the whole process down.
UAC PROMPT: Hello user! I took 20 seconds to appear, and only did so underneath all visible windows and without a taskbar window of my own. Looks like you found alt+tab!
Did you really mean to do what this application said you did?
Windows applications are pre-compiled 99.999% of the time - there is no need for a compiler for the vast majority of the users. You trade "freedom" and "security" for ease of installation and setup. Any linux user who installs something without personally reading every line of source code gives up the "security" gained from FOSS. Any linux user who ends up grabbing a binary driver for their video card gives up "freedom". --You should have trolled the registry and the lack of a competent equivalent to package managers.
Notepad is a great text editor. If you want something different/more robust, there are tons of free ones. --You should have trolled nothing - just queue the vi/emacs debate.
Windows is closed-source, so no, they don't ship it with the source code. --You should have trolled the ridiculous licensing scheme for different versions, volume licenses, upgrade/full, etc.
DX10-only games have been around since Vista's launch. They really didn't need DX10, of course; MS just money-hatted a few studios in order to help push people into moving to Vista (no DX10 on XP). it didn't work, and there are tweaks for most of the "DX10-only" games that allow you to play them on good ol' DX9.
Nothing about their data centers is state of the art.
It's all driven purely by cost. There is nothing high tech or fancy that Google has that other data centers don't - indeed, the opposite is very much true.
Processors in general are NOT cheap. Google's processors (and their "servers") ARE cheap. They're outdated, used, refurbished, and in general, broke ass shit.
But they're cheap. And that is ALL google cares about. Slap a bunch of them together for load and redundancy. It's slightly better than buying modern hardware, and you get to avoid having your name used by HP/SUN/IBM/etc.'s marketing departments ("GOOGLE uses our servers. GOOGLE!").
Google doesn't have some state-of-the-art data center - it has the world's biggest shoestring operation going on. And it is a bitch to set up and manage at the top level. But each individual "server" is basically a gear in a clock. Completely dumb, completely replaceable, no need to ever deal with it individually until you need to replace it.
So you work for Apple (either directly or through a contracted company) and you want people to listen to your unbiased, informed, purely factual opinion about them?
Facts? The fact is Apple did what they did BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE ALREADY BEING INVESTIGATED. An investigation doesn't begin when the SEC says "HEY GUYS WE'RE ON TO YOU!". It begins months or years before.
Irregularities? Complete bullshit. They were all backdating stop options like crazy, and had been doing so for ages. They continue to do so.
Against company policy? Pro tip: All the peons have to sign a piece of paper saying they won't get involved with insider training. All the higher ups get to participate in insider training.
You got fired, possibly because you were sick. If you WERE fired because you were sick, you could and should sue. But were you fired by Apple? And what does it have to do with Apple backdating stock options?
Your post is basically: You're wrong because I edited the press release and that's not what it said. I considered some insider trading but decided against it - it's against policy after all. I worked for Apple or a company contracted by Apple (I won't tell you which!) for only a few weeks, and I got fired for no reason.
"What was particularly galling to users was that once installed, the.NET add-on was virtually impossible to remove from Firefox. The usual "Disable" and "Uninstall" buttons in Firefox's add-on list were grayed out on all versions of Windows except Windows 7."
Disable and uninstall were there and working on day fucking 1 for my XP machines.
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Someone missed the news - Apple's new mouse has no buttons.
And it's dumb - just like all these MS has been playing with http://www.gizmag.com/microsoft-multi-touch-mouse-prototypes/13081/ .
Looks like I need to stock up on mice as well as keyboards now.
This is the only keyboard layout I will accept: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126013 (I could do without the stupid circle bumps and ms logo on the windows key, though)
Notice the non-retarded layout - nothing is curved, separated, or oddly angled for some bullshit ergonomic reasons. The return key isn't a fucking sea cow, and backspace isn't a damned midget. Backslash is right where it should be, and it has a respectable size. (Sandslash is right where he should be too, in my pokeball, bitches.)
I've got a 3(horizontal)x2(vertical) layout for my home bank, I've got a full numpad, and I still have my scroll lock and pause/break keys.
For mice, I want two real buttons. A scroll wheel is nice to have, too. And if it's there, is should be clickable. Give it a left/right tilt if you want, but I don't give a shit. 2 buttons on the left side by my thumb are fine too, but anything else is overkill. Sorry lefties.
Don't want a fucking led screen, fucking weights, fucking 8 million dpi, or whatever other bullshit the think of. I won't be doing fucking gestures instead of a single button click.
Are you a woman?
You MUST be GNU, y'hear?!
EFI is a BIOS.
There's literally no rational reason to buy a Mac.
Only fanboys would even consider it.
The fanboy phenomenon is all there is to Apple's sales.
Hmmm. Nope. Not funny.
You could have gotten a chuckle with "comparing Apples and Ballmers here.". Better luck next time.
Because the OS certainly has an ability to slow the whole process down.
UAC PROMPT:
Hello user!
I took 20 seconds to appear, and only did so underneath all visible windows and without a taskbar window of my own. Looks like you found alt+tab!
Did you really mean to do what this application said you did?
| Yes | No | What? (Yes) |
And use a lot of L3 cache shared across all processors.
The i7 CPUs sure as hell aren't priced according to cost anyway.
I disagree - the multi-threaded benchmark they used is a piece of shit, and you can only lower the scheduling overhead by so much.
Any actual performance gains must come from the damned code itself.
That IS, in fact, the PROPER pronunciation.
Robot? ROWbut.
Fail.
The correct response is:
Maybe you should have worked on something more useful, like a way to attach lasers to a sharks' heads!
Windows applications are pre-compiled 99.999% of the time - there is no need for a compiler for the vast majority of the users.
You trade "freedom" and "security" for ease of installation and setup. Any linux user who installs something without personally reading every line of source code gives up the "security" gained from FOSS. Any linux user who ends up grabbing a binary driver for their video card gives up "freedom".
--You should have trolled the registry and the lack of a competent equivalent to package managers.
Notepad is a great text editor. If you want something different/more robust, there are tons of free ones.
--You should have trolled nothing - just queue the vi/emacs debate.
Windows is closed-source, so no, they don't ship it with the source code.
--You should have trolled the ridiculous licensing scheme for different versions, volume licenses, upgrade/full, etc.
DX10-only games have been around since Vista's launch. They really didn't need DX10, of course; MS just money-hatted a few studios in order to help push people into moving to Vista (no DX10 on XP). it didn't work, and there are tweaks for most of the "DX10-only" games that allow you to play them on good ol' DX9.
I think you meant to say DX11.
I don't think net neutrality means what you think it does.
Nothing about their data centers is state of the art.
It's all driven purely by cost.
There is nothing high tech or fancy that Google has that other data centers don't - indeed, the opposite is very much true.
Load balancing - I would imagine Google does CDN-style stuff to cache content closer to end-users
So Google supports Canadian-style socialism?
Just keep them away from my health care!
That box is measured in feet. That's a big box.
Processors in general are NOT cheap. Google's processors (and their "servers") ARE cheap. They're outdated, used, refurbished, and in general, broke ass shit.
But they're cheap. And that is ALL google cares about. Slap a bunch of them together for load and redundancy. It's slightly better than buying modern hardware, and you get to avoid having your name used by HP/SUN/IBM/etc.'s marketing departments ("GOOGLE uses our servers. GOOGLE!").
Google doesn't have some state-of-the-art data center - it has the world's biggest shoestring operation going on. And it is a bitch to set up and manage at the top level. But each individual "server" is basically a gear in a clock. Completely dumb, completely replaceable, no need to ever deal with it individually until you need to replace it.
And guess what - it works.
10,000,001st.
Weeaboos will troll you for speaking the truth.
So you work for Apple (either directly or through a contracted company) and you want people to listen to your unbiased, informed, purely factual opinion about them?
Facts? The fact is Apple did what they did BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE ALREADY BEING INVESTIGATED.
An investigation doesn't begin when the SEC says "HEY GUYS WE'RE ON TO YOU!". It begins months or years before.
Irregularities? Complete bullshit. They were all backdating stop options like crazy, and had been doing so for ages. They continue to do so.
Against company policy? Pro tip: All the peons have to sign a piece of paper saying they won't get involved with insider training. All the higher ups get to participate in insider training.
You got fired, possibly because you were sick.
If you WERE fired because you were sick, you could and should sue.
But were you fired by Apple? And what does it have to do with Apple backdating stock options?
Your post is basically:
You're wrong because I edited the press release and that's not what it said.
I considered some insider trading but decided against it - it's against policy after all.
I worked for Apple or a company contracted by Apple (I won't tell you which!) for only a few weeks, and I got fired for no reason.
I mean really how many houses cars boats do you need ?
ALL OF THEM
No, routine is doing it, a short investigation showing you're guilty, and then waving your hands like a Jedi and getting off the hook.
Oh wait, that's only routine for Steve Jobs.
"What was particularly galling to users was that once installed, the .NET add-on was virtually impossible to remove from Firefox. The usual "Disable" and "Uninstall" buttons in Firefox's add-on list were grayed out on all versions of Windows except Windows 7."
Disable and uninstall were there and working on day fucking 1 for my XP machines.
Crap I don't want?