Call me when you can render the Wedding party in Blender. Or the Latest NFL game shots in blender. OR better yet, Any journalisim photos in blender.
Maybe the useless inanimate object in a studio for advertising photographers have no more job, but the rest of us that actually capture reality have nothing to worry about.
Nokia is an intentional destruction. That is different from incompetent leadership. What you see happening at Nokia is a very calculated and though out plan to completely destroy that company.
I think he is the best thing ever for the company, and they need to keep him on for the next 50 years. Windows Phone is flying off the shelves and outselling iPhone and Android phones combined!
As a FOSS guy, I think Microsoft is doing a stellar job and needs to continue under this mans direction.
I would agree with you if Social programs was 70% of our spending, but in reality it's not even 20%. Defense is the bulk of our spending and is not needed to be that large.
Honestly, I guarantee we can kill all the terrorists hiding in the bushes that are waiting to destroy our world with only 3/4 of what we spend on defense.
Blame the republicans and the democrats. They collectively destroyed the space program. They would rather spend MORE on defense than reduce the defense budget by 2% and give NASA the money the need to fully fund all their desired programs.
Infect humans with virus. Place humans in a sustainability tube filled with goo, hook up wires and feeding tubes. generate electricity to power the robot society after the uprising.
Which is incredibly easy to do in a LTSP environment.
just do a reinstall on the server over the weekend and re mount the User data raid. all done. The 3 IT guys can play nerf wars and eat pizza for the 4 hours it takes.
No, they really dont. It's just that society has became lazy to learning how to maintain their cars. Oil changes are really easy in the driveway, yet 90% of car owners cant do it. They are happy to pay $50.00 for that oil change instead of spending 45 minutes doing it themselves for $20.00.
I have owned cars from the 80's that have went 300,000 miles. VW beetles from the 60's and 70's as well as toyotas and hondas were legendary for their reliability.
Today? not so much. GM cars are still junk and break down, try fixing a broken BCM computer in a GM because it was made in china with defective caps. Oh you cant because it has to be married to the car's ECM using the Vin and a special tool. How about my incredibly reliable Jeep grand cherokee that has 250,000 miles on it and is running strong but has had the heater blend doors fail 3 times(all replaced under the extended warranty) now and is a known defect that Dodge did not bother to fix for 5 model years. And a couple guys in a garage discovered the real fix for it.
Oh and those legendary Honda and Toyota reliability? Ask Civic and Accord owners how reliable the motor mounts are that rip apart every 15,000 miles. or the toyota owners from any of the last 4 fiascos.
cars today are not better, just different. No you dont have to clean and replace the points every 1200 miles, but that has not been the case cince 1978 when electronic ignition came around. and yes iridium spark plugs go 100,000 miles. but good luck getting to the plugs as the moron engineers bury them under the valve covers.
I have had new cars fail for software problems. People dont use wrenches on cars anymore for two reasons. 1 - the car makers try like hell to make them non serviceable and 2 - people are a lot more lazy than they used to be.
"now we're reduced to such nonsense as "click on the logo orb", and "can you see the circle with what looks like a wrench and a cog in it?"."
Sorry, but it's worse....
Ok now click on the round blue blob thingy.... no not that one, the one in the corner. Now what do you see? the last one, what did you call it? A snake with a wheel? Click on that.
"I still don't understand why my super-complex nth-generation Office software still asks me if I want to "Save or Discard Changes" when I quit, without showing me what has changed in the document."
Mostly because programmers have been phoning it in since 1998. Very few programmers have a clue as to how to write software.
"Uhhh...except for devices with an "i" in the front of them frankly i haven't seen very many "higher resolution" devices, in fact when it comes to laptops if anything they are going lower resolution with most sub 15 inchers being 1366x768."
Stop buying the cheap crap. Wifes new Dell Alienware 15" has 1920X1080. The only place I see the screes staying as crappy low res is on the stuff made for the poor people at the sub $700.00 level for laptops.
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Call me when you can render the Wedding party in Blender. Or the Latest NFL game shots in blender. OR better yet, Any journalisim photos in blender.
Maybe the useless inanimate object in a studio for advertising photographers have no more job, but the rest of us that actually capture reality have nothing to worry about.
Nokia is an intentional destruction. That is different from incompetent leadership. What you see happening at Nokia is a very calculated and though out plan to completely destroy that company.
"Seriously, what does a "web app marketplace" have to offer that isn't already done better through one of the above resources?"
A way for Mozilla foundation to have direct access to your wallet.
Chrome works better anyways, most guys I know that use linux are using Chrome and it's app store.
Mozilla has become a also ran lately, they need to get their focus back if they want to get back in the race.
I think he is the best thing ever for the company, and they need to keep him on for the next 50 years. Windows Phone is flying off the shelves and outselling iPhone and Android phones combined!
As a FOSS guy, I think Microsoft is doing a stellar job and needs to continue under this mans direction.
I would agree with you if Social programs was 70% of our spending, but in reality it's not even 20%. Defense is the bulk of our spending and is not needed to be that large.
Honestly, I guarantee we can kill all the terrorists hiding in the bushes that are waiting to destroy our world with only 3/4 of what we spend on defense.
Blame the republicans and the democrats. They collectively destroyed the space program. They would rather spend MORE on defense than reduce the defense budget by 2% and give NASA the money the need to fully fund all their desired programs.
That is how big of scumbags your congress is.
Sounds like a good way to get infections.
"Yes, I want a wrist phone, but I don't want to undergo surgery to have one."
Agreed, as they have been available for years now...
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS419US419&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Wrist+GSM+phone#q=Wrist+GSM+phone&hl=en&rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS419US419&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=WDGxT7C9BMXc6QGdvtTLCQ&ved=0CNQBEK0E&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=c67682efa83391b3&biw=1680&bih=830
Honestly the iTV is a dumb idea. Now an iSight camera that plugs into the AppleTV3 to give you face time at home on your TV... That's a smart idea.
The TV market is so saturated with a fight for the lowest price, I cant see apple make any inroads at all.
I just wish they would make a prequel. or are they considering the terminator series the prequel.
And hopefully they use a director that has some skills, not impressed with the Washowski brothers after the first movie.
"The idea of generating power from your shoes is a silly one. Are you going to run wires from your shoes to the pocket your phone is in?"
No, you use step up transformers and convert the electricity to thousands of volts and send it up the legs of the person wearing the shoes.
Infect humans with virus.
Place humans in a sustainability tube filled with goo, hook up wires and feeding tubes.
generate electricity to power the robot society after the uprising.
Yeah, I don't see this as a good idea.
"What reason is there not to have actual people living in it?"
Duh, so they can nuke it in case of a robot uprising.
Businesses dont WANT to do a lot of "cool" on their desktop.
So in other words, Ubuntu has decided that they have no interest in business use of Ubuntu. Got it!
Which is incredibly easy to do in a LTSP environment.
just do a reinstall on the server over the weekend and re mount the User data raid. all done. The 3 IT guys can play nerf wars and eat pizza for the 4 hours it takes.
My favorite is the "dispense bacon button" but it's always broken or out of bacon on my car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1337909712/
"Also, is carbon paper REALLY still used?"
yes, go to any warehouse and their picker dot matrix printer.
They still make dot matrix printers!
I thought that is the symbol for installing an electrical socket in that location. It's on all the building wiring blueprints that way.
"They run much more reliably"
Says the man that has never owned an Alpha Romeo.
No, they really dont. It's just that society has became lazy to learning how to maintain their cars. Oil changes are really easy in the driveway, yet 90% of car owners cant do it. They are happy to pay $50.00 for that oil change instead of spending 45 minutes doing it themselves for $20.00.
I have owned cars from the 80's that have went 300,000 miles. VW beetles from the 60's and 70's as well as toyotas and hondas were legendary for their reliability.
Today? not so much. GM cars are still junk and break down, try fixing a broken BCM computer in a GM because it was made in china with defective caps. Oh you cant because it has to be married to the car's ECM using the Vin and a special tool. How about my incredibly reliable Jeep grand cherokee that has 250,000 miles on it and is running strong but has had the heater blend doors fail 3 times(all replaced under the extended warranty) now and is a known defect that Dodge did not bother to fix for 5 model years. And a couple guys in a garage discovered the real fix for it.
Oh and those legendary Honda and Toyota reliability? Ask Civic and Accord owners how reliable the motor mounts are that rip apart every 15,000 miles. or the toyota owners from any of the last 4 fiascos.
cars today are not better, just different. No you dont have to clean and replace the points every 1200 miles, but that has not been the case cince 1978 when electronic ignition came around. and yes iridium spark plugs go 100,000 miles. but good luck getting to the plugs as the moron engineers bury them under the valve covers.
I have had new cars fail for software problems. People dont use wrenches on cars anymore for two reasons. 1 - the car makers try like hell to make them non serviceable and 2 - people are a lot more lazy than they used to be.
"now we're reduced to such nonsense as "click on the logo orb", and "can you see the circle with what looks like a wrench and a cog in it?"."
Sorry, but it's worse....
Ok now click on the round blue blob thingy.... no not that one, the one in the corner. Now what do you see? the last one, what did you call it? A snake with a wheel? Click on that.
"I still don't understand why my super-complex nth-generation Office software still asks me if I want to "Save or Discard Changes" when I quit, without showing me what has changed in the document."
Mostly because programmers have been phoning it in since 1998. Very few programmers have a clue as to how to write software.
"Uhhh...except for devices with an "i" in the front of them frankly i haven't seen very many "higher resolution" devices, in fact when it comes to laptops if anything they are going lower resolution with most sub 15 inchers being 1366x768."
Stop buying the cheap crap. Wifes new Dell Alienware 15" has 1920X1080. The only place I see the screes staying as crappy low res is on the stuff made for the poor people at the sub $700.00 level for laptops.
Now that screens have higher resolutions, they cant see them anyway.
Sit closer to the monitor, or wear your reading glasses old man.
He is lead interface design developer for Ubuntu.