So the key to sleeping well is to spend a lot, as much as you can as Parent says, but spend it on the best stuff. Even if it's only.5% better and costs 50% or 100% more, it's still BETTER, so boss is pleased, and you can still take pride in your work, just not in the fashion you thought you would be going in. I'm going to convert our shop to mostly Mac soon, despite the fact that I hate Mac. Its "better". F the cost. Doing that will get me my VP title. Note that even though I hate Mac, it is in many ways better, and the boss thinks so too, so, WIN.
So what do you think money is, and what do you think it should be. Don't tell me, let me guess: gold, right? No nation has ever adhered to a gold standard and any nation that tried to, wouldn't last 5 years. My sig. has the red pill.
A lot of people are going to eat a lot of shit along the way, BUT, this will result in a big return to reality in the US, and that's got to be a good thing overall. Hell, maybe we'll actually end up with a monetary system that isn't gamed by banks. Sorry, I got a bit carried away there.
You lock them in a safe - not leave them in the back of a drug cabinet. Those pills are dangerous for stupid people, and there is no telling when some knuckle head may be in your bathroom.
I think your history is a bit off the mark. I was taught that the Opium Wars were initiated by the Brits to force China to allow the Brits to import opium - a substance produced in Britain's colony, India, that the Chinese government wanted to ban. Yes, Britain had a superior military force, but that was because of their superior technology, not some sort of drug stupor that all of China was in.
The noise that HDDs make is like fingernails on a blackboard for me. I have permanent tinnitus from them. My last performance HDD workstation had the drives in a closet connected by an eSATA cable. Then I found SSDs. Ahhhh.
NO! There is no possible way to make a computer voting system that cannot be untraceably hacked. The key word here is "untraceably". Any system can be hacked, but with some problem spaces it is easy to make sure that any hacking can be traced. With voting it is impossible. Think!
Yeah, but where does responsibility end? The other night I was feeling pretty damn horrible about paying my federal income tax - it funds terrorists, i.e. the US Federal government. It makes sense, but is not conducive to living. I am not quite ready to sit down in a public place with a gallon of gasoline and a zippo.
Why is this so hard for open fans to grasp? And this is just one example of closed source functionality beating the crap out of anything available in open source. Here's another: Exchange/Outlook. It's so sad that open source is such weak sauce, AND that, as a result, closed source gets away with all sorts of crappy behavior because, sorry, no competition to spur them to greatness - to justify the bondage.
>> software isn't a reliable source of income as the price is always driven to zero, so they sell hardware and use software to compliment it.
I speak here totally from fantastic opinion, but though I understand and agree with your evidence for the case you make, I cannot help but feel that you are still wrong. Microsoft, to me, says, "We could make excellent money with software, if only our software was any good." Which sadly, it *almost* is...
Yeah, and as if a file "in use" does not have a static version, capable, yes, of being copied, on the drive at any given time. WTF was someone thinking there????
I just don't get it. How can an organization as filled with talent as Microsoft make such a boneheaded decision about how such a simple thing should work? And then leave it that way version after version after version... *sigh*
Yeah, and I suppose that every winter you change all 6 tires for high quality winter tires so you don't lose control and smash into sane people's cars. BTW, the next time you are watching Fox News and joining in the vitriol over welfare mothers, look in the mirror. (Who do you think subsidizes your gas guzzler?)
Vehicles that can hold several people do not have to be enormous AWD SUVs. SUV drivers are by and large undertrained morons, for anyone who actually knows how to drive would never use an SUV for daily driving - they are far too dangerous.
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So the key to sleeping well is to spend a lot, as much as you can as Parent says, but spend it on the best stuff. Even if it's only .5% better and costs 50% or 100% more, it's still BETTER, so boss is pleased, and you can still take pride in your work, just not in the fashion you thought you would be going in. I'm going to convert our shop to mostly Mac soon, despite the fact that I hate Mac. Its "better". F the cost. Doing that will get me my VP title. Note that even though I hate Mac, it is in many ways better, and the boss thinks so too, so, WIN.
Been there too. What the parent says is true - you don't want to do this. Asterix is for hobbyists.
Plus the juice cures cancer.
Yeah, but without meat, and just as important, animal fat, in our diet we get really, really sick. We better get vat grown working soon!
So what do you think money is, and what do you think it should be. Don't tell me, let me guess: gold, right? No nation has ever adhered to a gold standard and any nation that tried to, wouldn't last 5 years. My sig. has the red pill.
A lot of people are going to eat a lot of shit along the way, BUT, this will result in a big return to reality in the US, and that's got to be a good thing overall. Hell, maybe we'll actually end up with a monetary system that isn't gamed by banks. Sorry, I got a bit carried away there.
Hello? The patent system is completely broken. Film at 11.
I don't think applying a time release coating, itself a known entity, to a known drug is sufficiently novel to deserve a patent.
You lock them in a safe - not leave them in the back of a drug cabinet. Those pills are dangerous for stupid people, and there is no telling when some knuckle head may be in your bathroom.
I think your history is a bit off the mark. I was taught that the Opium Wars were initiated by the Brits to force China to allow the Brits to import opium - a substance produced in Britain's colony, India, that the Chinese government wanted to ban. Yes, Britain had a superior military force, but that was because of their superior technology, not some sort of drug stupor that all of China was in.
The noise that HDDs make is like fingernails on a blackboard for me. I have permanent tinnitus from them. My last performance HDD workstation had the drives in a closet connected by an eSATA cable. Then I found SSDs. Ahhhh.
Or blanketing the land with breeder reactors... Oh hells no! That is way too close to something that might actually make a difference.
Absentee voting is a nest of snakes and should be completely banned.
NO! There is no possible way to make a computer voting system that cannot be untraceably hacked. The key word here is "untraceably". Any system can be hacked, but with some problem spaces it is easy to make sure that any hacking can be traced. With voting it is impossible. Think!
What you fail to realize is that the new US system of using data processing equipment to count ballots leads to wholesale fraud.
Yeah, but where does responsibility end? The other night I was feeling pretty damn horrible about paying my federal income tax - it funds terrorists, i.e. the US Federal government. It makes sense, but is not conducive to living. I am not quite ready to sit down in a public place with a gallon of gasoline and a zippo.
Everyone except health and pharma company CEOs. Oh yeah, and politicians. Hmmm.
Why is this so hard for open fans to grasp? And this is just one example of closed source functionality beating the crap out of anything available in open source. Here's another: Exchange/Outlook. It's so sad that open source is such weak sauce, AND that, as a result, closed source gets away with all sorts of crappy behavior because, sorry, no competition to spur them to greatness - to justify the bondage.
>> In the 1960s and 1970s, the working and middle classes (here in America) were stronger and richer than they had ever been.
Easily fixed: go back to the 90% top tier tax rate we had in the 50s and 60s that created that prosperous middle class.
Optimum: A really, really talented gypsy fortune teller! Saves a lot of mis-steps.
>> And when my cousins visit her I don't get the "the kids broke the computer with their stupid websites" calls any more ;)
Those days are almost over: http://www.techspot.com/news/50009-new-malware-targets-linux-and-mac-os-x.html *sigh* The upside is that finally somebody is going to have to make the first secure os. It's about time.
>> software isn't a reliable source of income as the price is always driven to zero, so they sell hardware and use software to compliment it.
I speak here totally from fantastic opinion, but though I understand and agree with your evidence for the case you make, I cannot help but feel that you are still wrong. Microsoft, to me, says, "We could make excellent money with software, if only our software was any good." Which sadly, it *almost* is...
Yeah, and as if a file "in use" does not have a static version, capable, yes, of being copied, on the drive at any given time. WTF was someone thinking there????
I just don't get it. How can an organization as filled with talent as Microsoft make such a boneheaded decision about how such a simple thing should work? And then leave it that way version after version after version... *sigh*
Yeah, and I suppose that every winter you change all 6 tires for high quality winter tires so you don't lose control and smash into sane people's cars. BTW, the next time you are watching Fox News and joining in the vitriol over welfare mothers, look in the mirror. (Who do you think subsidizes your gas guzzler?)
Vehicles that can hold several people do not have to be enormous AWD SUVs. SUV drivers are by and large undertrained morons, for anyone who actually knows how to drive would never use an SUV for daily driving - they are far too dangerous.