There's the story in a nutshell. Microsoft doesn't need new CEO's or any other positions filled. Microsoft needed better judges to stomp their asses when they were in court for monopoly abuses. *sigh* That was just one of the minor sins of the Bush administration, though. Their DOJ let Microsoft off the hook way to soon.
"As for TFA, how long before the user CAN'T restore, simply because the cheap bastard OEMs use "restore partitions" which the bug should be able to get at?"
Saw that, in real life. The wife's first Athlon from Compaq had that restore partition. She got infected, and I tried to fix things for her. It took me a few tries, before I figured out that not only had the virus replicated itself to the system restore points, but had also gotten into that restore partition. The only option was to nuke and reinstall - but she insisted that we allow Compaq to do that.
Looking back, it seems that sort of crap "support" from vendors pushed me into the Linux world just as much as any problems with Microsoft.
"It was around 9.10 that I felt like 64 bit had enough support"
I guess we have different ideas on that. When I bought my first 64 bit Opteron, I decided that I was going to run a 64 bit OS, come hell or high water. At that point in time, nothing wanted to work out of the box. I experimented with everything that I could find an ISO for. Many of the problems were over my head, and unsolvable. Then, I stumbled over a Suse release that "just worked" - everything was detected, everything worked, including my WIFI.
I've never gone back to 32 bit. Oh - I maintain one 32 bit system for the wife. She doesn't want to upgrade anything, as long as it works for her. Two Opterons and an Athlon, I hammer away until the 64 bit OS works on them. And, with Ubuntu, it has taken very little work. Oh, they broke my Wifi support once, but by that time, I knew enough to get it working again pretty easily. Even Flash and Java are available in 64 bit now.
Never have documented all that stuff, but I guess I've been 64 bit since Nov or Dec of 2004. Other than that single Wifi driver regression, Ubuntu hasn't been a problem on 64 bit!
The problem is - NASA spends way to much money, for to little return. I've said before that the ultimate goal of space exploration is to provide more habitable space in our solar system, off of the earth, so that a single cataclysmic event cannot end the human race. NASA's missions and goals do not seem to mesh with that ultimate goal. SpaceX seems to be the way forward. In the western world, at least, they seem the most likely to achieve the heavy lift capacity required to put some kind of habitat out there - even if a very limited version, woefully inadequate to meet my stated goals.
But, if the goal is to be achieved, SOMEONE has to go first! If I were a wealthy man, like Bill Gates, I would invest my billions into SpaceX. IMHO, there is no more altruistic use for all that money.
Can't fire me, and I can't quit, either. I never accepted the job. But, if you're in the mood for firing someone, you can hit that sycophant IT puke who promised to make all that stupid shit work for you, just like you wanted it to work.
Uhhh - Firefox is not Linux, and Linux is not Firefox. I don't know how you lump the two together. You're not yet another Microsoft shill, dumping on anything that remotely resembles competition to Microsoft, are you?
Yuk. Apparently you're giving tacit approval to the practice of writing applications meant to run in a web browser. Why? It just makes no sense. We've already seen what happens when the browser, the email app, and office apps all have hooks deep into the system. It opens the doors to multiple mega exploits!
No thanks, I'll pass. And any corporate IT people with a lick of sense will take a pass as well. Write your app in a real language, not as a half assed addon to a web browser.
Then they should stop whining, shouldn't they? "Ohh, I just hate it when the gate guards grope me, but I'm making so much easy money, I can't tell them no!" Sounds a little like prostitution to me . . .
Hands on your junk? Funny. I don't have "junk". I have a phallus. A cock. A penis. It goes by several different names, but never "junk". Maybe if you had a real phallus of your own, you would decide that the TSA couldn't fondle it any longer. Junk is what you have no use for, and you'd like to have hauled away to be recycled.
Oh, what's that you say? All those names are rather vulgar, and you'd rather not use them? Alright, you tell me which is more vulgar. 1) The proper terms for your anatomy, or 2) common laymen's terms for your anatomy, or 3) the fact that strange men and women can grope your anatomy at will?
The first three hits on a Google search shows that companies supply dosimeter and supplies for ~$70/year. I think that even a lowly TSA employee could afford his own dosimter.
I heard a rumor that a lot of agricultural jobs are opening up in Georgia. And, a lot of the competition is headed for the border, where they belong. Now, I've been badmouthing lazy white boys and lazy niggahs for a long time. Come on, prove me wrong. Prove that AMERICANS still know how to work for a living.
"there is no realistic chance of an effective boycott on air travel."
I call "bullshit". Just don't fly. Tell your boss he can find some flunky to do the flying, 'cause you're not doing it. Tell the family that you'd love to attend the wedding/funeral/whatever, but you can't fly because you're protesting the TSA's conduct. Which family emergency MUST you fly for? Precious few. Your spouse, or your child, has been injured hundreds or thousands of miles from home, and you need to be there, is about the only one I can think of.
JUST DON'T FLY!! If enough people protest in a meaningful manner, the airlines will begin protesting, and the TSA will be curbed like the bitch dogs they are.
Boxcutters are only a credible threat in a population of thoroughly cowed citizens. A nation that teaches children that "it is never right to fight" can expect their children to grow into pansies who are bullied by anyone, and everyone who grows up fighting.
Boxcutters. Yes, of course, in the hands of a trained killer, ANYTHING will become a weapon. But, that boxcutter is simply not a weapon of choice among killers, because it's so easy to defend against. Presuming, of course, that the target has a mindset which permits him to think in terms of defense and offense.
Make up your mind. Scum or "weazels". If you weren't a retard, you would understand that scum is around the bottom of the food chain, while weasels occupy a niche at the higher end of the food chain. Nothing in common, whatsoever. Things that eat scum, in turn feed other things, which weasels prey upon. I know the concept is difficult to grasp, for one of your limited mental capacities - but please, try to make the effort. You'll be so proud of yourself, and your mommy and daddy will be proud too! Go ahead, put on your big boy pants, along with your thinking cap, and work hard to figure this stuff out, alright?
BTW, I think Linux bashers are closer to the pond scum than they are to the weasels. But, that's just an opinion, with no scientific proof to back it up.
The "it will pay for itself" thing isn't really as wrong as people think. Iraqi oil is being pumped, and it is filling a market need. Alright, it's not coming to the United States, but it was never promised that it would come to the United States. In fact, much of that Iraqi oil is being shipped to China. Which, actually helps us, in that China is not competing as strongly as they would have in other market sources of oil.
The Republicans insisted that oil must flow from Iraq, and it flows. The fact that it doesn't benefit us directly doesn't completely invalidate their goals.
That auto manufacturer might care - but it's none of their business. It ONLY becomes their business IF I begin producing the look-alike product, and marketing the thing. If I happen to market exact replicas, complete with name plates, THEN I would have infringed on patent law as well as trademark law. But, so long as I limit myself to building a few copies for personal use, Chevrolet, Toyota, or Volkswagen have no business doing more than looking at it.
Bullshit. Let's see how knowledge serves you, when no one is willing to grow the food to feed you. I said "hungry", and that is what I meant. So long as obesity runs rampant in America, none of you kids can claim to know what hunger is. Hunger is not to be equated with the greed for superflous bullshit that you cite above.
BTW - it was your parents and grandparents, maybe your great grand parents who made this nation a superpower. Today, we see that superpower status slipping away. Yes, we are in decline, as PopeRatzo suggested. Enjoy your delusions of superiority. They won't return power to the United States, though.
I don't believe in papal infallibility, so I'll argue with you. I graduated high school in 1974, and the '70's were a decade of hope. Now, as for the '80's, yeah, you're pretty close to right. The steel industry set the example for all the rest of corporate America. Stop paying those Union wages, and ship the jobs to Europe, Asia, even Africa if you can find enough people there with the intelligence to run a furnace.
Half century of decline? I like optimism. We might come back in 50 years. But, I look at so many of today's young people, and they have no drive, no hunger, no need to do anything. Seems to me that we need a new generation of hungry men and women with drive to make any kind of a comeback. These 30 year old game players have nothing to offer America!
I'm still forming opinions on academic paywalls - but you most certainly have a good point right there.
I get SO aggravated when I'm trying to chase down some bit of data, that often enough is trivial in nature, but all the leads send me to a freaking paywall. Hey, I don't expect copies of textbooks, nor do I expect access to "trade secrets". There is plenty of stuff that the average person probably shouldn't have access to, unless he's willing to pay. But, FFS, I've run into paywalls when reading about psychology, chemical reactions, even HISTORY!
How in hell does Academia and their suppliers corner the market on some trivial history fact, anyway? (BTW - don't even ask what I was searching for in particular. I've forgotten now. I only remember that I hit the pay wall, and exploded. I ranted to an empty room for a good 15 minutes, LMAO!)
Uppity niggers, huh? How 'bout just plain freaking STUPID? Doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown, or whatever, stupid is stupid.
Ask your family what part (if any) they took in blocking the Army Corps of Engineers from rebuilding and upgrading the levees in the city, and around the lake. Uppity niggers? I suggest you call out the Sierra Club, among others, and get thier position on those uppity niggers. It will be something like, "We must preserve the wonderful fishing north of the City, even if it means those uppity niggers drown during the next hurricane!"
The uppity folk in New Orleans, whatever colors they might be, should have been insisting that the Corps proceed with improvements and upgrades all through the last 50 years, instead of caving in to idiot concerns about the "environment".
After you've digested all of that - you might investigate those two spots where the levees ultimately failed. Both of them had panels removed by the department of water and sewers, fittings installed on those panels, then the panels were replaced in the vary same places WITHOUT ANY WORK TO STABILIZE THE SOIL. Both panels failed when that destabilized earth washed out from under them.
Actually, some of us blame the problem on the users who insist on using an insecure operating system. Worse, they use those insecure operating systems in stupid ways.
Would you like to see a video of dancing pink ponies? Just click the Windows executable, wait for it to download, then click through all the silly Windows warnings - don't worry about all those warnings!
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"Microsoft has a virtual monopoly."
There's the story in a nutshell. Microsoft doesn't need new CEO's or any other positions filled. Microsoft needed better judges to stomp their asses when they were in court for monopoly abuses. *sigh* That was just one of the minor sins of the Bush administration, though. Their DOJ let Microsoft off the hook way to soon.
"As for TFA, how long before the user CAN'T restore, simply because the cheap bastard OEMs use "restore partitions" which the bug should be able to get at?"
Saw that, in real life. The wife's first Athlon from Compaq had that restore partition. She got infected, and I tried to fix things for her. It took me a few tries, before I figured out that not only had the virus replicated itself to the system restore points, but had also gotten into that restore partition. The only option was to nuke and reinstall - but she insisted that we allow Compaq to do that.
Looking back, it seems that sort of crap "support" from vendors pushed me into the Linux world just as much as any problems with Microsoft.
"It was around 9.10 that I felt like 64 bit had enough support"
I guess we have different ideas on that. When I bought my first 64 bit Opteron, I decided that I was going to run a 64 bit OS, come hell or high water. At that point in time, nothing wanted to work out of the box. I experimented with everything that I could find an ISO for. Many of the problems were over my head, and unsolvable. Then, I stumbled over a Suse release that "just worked" - everything was detected, everything worked, including my WIFI.
I've never gone back to 32 bit. Oh - I maintain one 32 bit system for the wife. She doesn't want to upgrade anything, as long as it works for her. Two Opterons and an Athlon, I hammer away until the 64 bit OS works on them. And, with Ubuntu, it has taken very little work. Oh, they broke my Wifi support once, but by that time, I knew enough to get it working again pretty easily. Even Flash and Java are available in 64 bit now.
Never have documented all that stuff, but I guess I've been 64 bit since Nov or Dec of 2004. Other than that single Wifi driver regression, Ubuntu hasn't been a problem on 64 bit!
The problem is - NASA spends way to much money, for to little return. I've said before that the ultimate goal of space exploration is to provide more habitable space in our solar system, off of the earth, so that a single cataclysmic event cannot end the human race. NASA's missions and goals do not seem to mesh with that ultimate goal. SpaceX seems to be the way forward. In the western world, at least, they seem the most likely to achieve the heavy lift capacity required to put some kind of habitat out there - even if a very limited version, woefully inadequate to meet my stated goals.
But, if the goal is to be achieved, SOMEONE has to go first! If I were a wealthy man, like Bill Gates, I would invest my billions into SpaceX. IMHO, there is no more altruistic use for all that money.
Can't fire me, and I can't quit, either. I never accepted the job. But, if you're in the mood for firing someone, you can hit that sycophant IT puke who promised to make all that stupid shit work for you, just like you wanted it to work.
Uhhh - Firefox is not Linux, and Linux is not Firefox. I don't know how you lump the two together. You're not yet another Microsoft shill, dumping on anything that remotely resembles competition to Microsoft, are you?
Yuk. Apparently you're giving tacit approval to the practice of writing applications meant to run in a web browser. Why? It just makes no sense. We've already seen what happens when the browser, the email app, and office apps all have hooks deep into the system. It opens the doors to multiple mega exploits!
No thanks, I'll pass. And any corporate IT people with a lick of sense will take a pass as well. Write your app in a real language, not as a half assed addon to a web browser.
Then they should stop whining, shouldn't they? "Ohh, I just hate it when the gate guards grope me, but I'm making so much easy money, I can't tell them no!" Sounds a little like prostitution to me . . .
Hands on your junk? Funny. I don't have "junk". I have a phallus. A cock. A penis. It goes by several different names, but never "junk". Maybe if you had a real phallus of your own, you would decide that the TSA couldn't fondle it any longer. Junk is what you have no use for, and you'd like to have hauled away to be recycled.
Oh, what's that you say? All those names are rather vulgar, and you'd rather not use them? Alright, you tell me which is more vulgar. 1) The proper terms for your anatomy, or 2) common laymen's terms for your anatomy, or 3) the fact that strange men and women can grope your anatomy at will?
Junk. Just grow a pair, alright?
We're practicing religious nuts here in America, worshipping the Gods of Complacency.
The first three hits on a Google search shows that companies supply dosimeter and supplies for ~$70/year. I think that even a lowly TSA employee could afford his own dosimter.
I heard a rumor that a lot of agricultural jobs are opening up in Georgia. And, a lot of the competition is headed for the border, where they belong. Now, I've been badmouthing lazy white boys and lazy niggahs for a long time. Come on, prove me wrong. Prove that AMERICANS still know how to work for a living.
"there is no realistic chance of an effective boycott on air travel."
I call "bullshit". Just don't fly. Tell your boss he can find some flunky to do the flying, 'cause you're not doing it. Tell the family that you'd love to attend the wedding/funeral/whatever, but you can't fly because you're protesting the TSA's conduct. Which family emergency MUST you fly for? Precious few. Your spouse, or your child, has been injured hundreds or thousands of miles from home, and you need to be there, is about the only one I can think of.
JUST DON'T FLY!! If enough people protest in a meaningful manner, the airlines will begin protesting, and the TSA will be curbed like the bitch dogs they are.
Boxcutters are only a credible threat in a population of thoroughly cowed citizens. A nation that teaches children that "it is never right to fight" can expect their children to grow into pansies who are bullied by anyone, and everyone who grows up fighting.
Boxcutters. Yes, of course, in the hands of a trained killer, ANYTHING will become a weapon. But, that boxcutter is simply not a weapon of choice among killers, because it's so easy to defend against. Presuming, of course, that the target has a mindset which permits him to think in terms of defense and offense.
"Terrorists use eight year old kids as vessel for their explosives,"
How many citations can you find? That is, how many instances of prepubescent children blowing themselves up have there been? One? Six? A hundred?
Make up your mind. Scum or "weazels". If you weren't a retard, you would understand that scum is around the bottom of the food chain, while weasels occupy a niche at the higher end of the food chain. Nothing in common, whatsoever. Things that eat scum, in turn feed other things, which weasels prey upon. I know the concept is difficult to grasp, for one of your limited mental capacities - but please, try to make the effort. You'll be so proud of yourself, and your mommy and daddy will be proud too! Go ahead, put on your big boy pants, along with your thinking cap, and work hard to figure this stuff out, alright?
BTW, I think Linux bashers are closer to the pond scum than they are to the weasels. But, that's just an opinion, with no scientific proof to back it up.
The "it will pay for itself" thing isn't really as wrong as people think. Iraqi oil is being pumped, and it is filling a market need. Alright, it's not coming to the United States, but it was never promised that it would come to the United States. In fact, much of that Iraqi oil is being shipped to China. Which, actually helps us, in that China is not competing as strongly as they would have in other market sources of oil.
The Republicans insisted that oil must flow from Iraq, and it flows. The fact that it doesn't benefit us directly doesn't completely invalidate their goals.
That auto manufacturer might care - but it's none of their business. It ONLY becomes their business IF I begin producing the look-alike product, and marketing the thing. If I happen to market exact replicas, complete with name plates, THEN I would have infringed on patent law as well as trademark law. But, so long as I limit myself to building a few copies for personal use, Chevrolet, Toyota, or Volkswagen have no business doing more than looking at it.
Bullshit. Let's see how knowledge serves you, when no one is willing to grow the food to feed you. I said "hungry", and that is what I meant. So long as obesity runs rampant in America, none of you kids can claim to know what hunger is. Hunger is not to be equated with the greed for superflous bullshit that you cite above.
BTW - it was your parents and grandparents, maybe your great grand parents who made this nation a superpower. Today, we see that superpower status slipping away. Yes, we are in decline, as PopeRatzo suggested. Enjoy your delusions of superiority. They won't return power to the United States, though.
I don't believe in papal infallibility, so I'll argue with you. I graduated high school in 1974, and the '70's were a decade of hope. Now, as for the '80's, yeah, you're pretty close to right. The steel industry set the example for all the rest of corporate America. Stop paying those Union wages, and ship the jobs to Europe, Asia, even Africa if you can find enough people there with the intelligence to run a furnace.
Half century of decline? I like optimism. We might come back in 50 years. But, I look at so many of today's young people, and they have no drive, no hunger, no need to do anything. Seems to me that we need a new generation of hungry men and women with drive to make any kind of a comeback. These 30 year old game players have nothing to offer America!
"It baffles me how *GEEKS* of all people are so antagonistic against their own beliefs out of small scale greed."
[sarcasm] Of course geeks should control their small scale greed, in deference to corporate macro greed! [/sarcasm]
Come on, imaginary property is imaginary property. Who should know better than the geeks? They have plenty of it!
I'm still forming opinions on academic paywalls - but you most certainly have a good point right there.
I get SO aggravated when I'm trying to chase down some bit of data, that often enough is trivial in nature, but all the leads send me to a freaking paywall. Hey, I don't expect copies of textbooks, nor do I expect access to "trade secrets". There is plenty of stuff that the average person probably shouldn't have access to, unless he's willing to pay. But, FFS, I've run into paywalls when reading about psychology, chemical reactions, even HISTORY!
How in hell does Academia and their suppliers corner the market on some trivial history fact, anyway? (BTW - don't even ask what I was searching for in particular. I've forgotten now. I only remember that I hit the pay wall, and exploded. I ranted to an empty room for a good 15 minutes, LMAO!)
Uppity niggers, huh? How 'bout just plain freaking STUPID? Doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown, or whatever, stupid is stupid.
Ask your family what part (if any) they took in blocking the Army Corps of Engineers from rebuilding and upgrading the levees in the city, and around the lake. Uppity niggers? I suggest you call out the Sierra Club, among others, and get thier position on those uppity niggers. It will be something like, "We must preserve the wonderful fishing north of the City, even if it means those uppity niggers drown during the next hurricane!"
The uppity folk in New Orleans, whatever colors they might be, should have been insisting that the Corps proceed with improvements and upgrades all through the last 50 years, instead of caving in to idiot concerns about the "environment".
After you've digested all of that - you might investigate those two spots where the levees ultimately failed. Both of them had panels removed by the department of water and sewers, fittings installed on those panels, then the panels were replaced in the vary same places WITHOUT ANY WORK TO STABILIZE THE SOIL. Both panels failed when that destabilized earth washed out from under them.
Heh. Why be normal? Normal people aren't any happier than I am.
Actually, some of us blame the problem on the users who insist on using an insecure operating system. Worse, they use those insecure operating systems in stupid ways.
Would you like to see a video of dancing pink ponies? Just click the Windows executable, wait for it to download, then click through all the silly Windows warnings - don't worry about all those warnings!