chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.4"
It actually took me a minute to figure out how to change Chromium's user agent string, lol
It works. I hope I don't contribute to the bitter argument between Apple Fanbois and Apple Haters - but it does work, if anyone really wants to try it.
Audio fails, probably because I don't have iTunes, and the VR demo fails because "This demo requires a browser that supports CSS 3D transforms." All the rest work just fine.
Did you just say "jailbreak"? My kid has an iPod that was jailbroken within 4 hours after he got it. (Not a new one - he bought a used one, just so he could jailbreak it. Wasn't worth the risk of bricking a NEW phone!"
There are already posts about loading pages for a few k of content, which total up to megabytes - all because the page is burdened with advertising. Even though I have the slowest, crappiest, highest latency DSL in the world, no page should EVER take a minute to load. I upgraded from dialup just as soon as DSL became available in my area, and the advertisers sucked up every bit of bandwidth that I'm paying for!! Me, I'm PAYING for advertising! Why? I don't want to see ANY of it!
AdBlock Plus, and noscript are essential to browsing the web on dialup and any low-bandwidth plan, as well as for anyone living an hour or two from the big cities. That is just so WRONG, on so many levels.
AMD leads in availability of features. Intel has always locked features, unless you were willing to PAY for them. All AMD processors are sold with the same virtualization and other capabilities. No matter which price range I am looking at, I'll go with AMD. I never liked Intel very much.
Actually - AMD bought ATI with just this scenario in mind. Make the chips work together, and complement each other. How much more complementary can you get, than putting them on the same chip? Integrated circuits are MUCH faster than trying to pump everything through a pipeline!
To be honest, there is so much irrational hatred for Obama, that it's a little tough picking out the rational hatred. So far, the man has only done two things that I dislike a lot. He favors ACTA, and he favors amnesty for illegal aliens. Other than that, he doesn't appear to have done much of anything that warrants hatred.
"where is the nearest fresh water from your current location, miles?"
HA HA!!! 180 feet! The wells still work, too. Which reminds me - I need to check the covers on those wells. Some damn drunken fool could fall into them, break his neck, and drown. That would ruin the water for a long time to come! Thanks for the reminder.
"How many times have we seen laws "creatively interpreted" to allow someone to do something that might otherwise be considered illegal?"
Eminent Domain. One of the best known times it was used in this (ooops, LAST century, now) century, was when Ike wanted the interstate highway system. Nowadays, any bunch of frat boys can go to city hall, convince the mayor and the city council that they can make more taxes off of a property, and that property is pretty much handed over to the frat boys. I'm quite certain THAT was a pretty creative "interpretation" of eminent domain.
I remember a bit further back than you do. I remember when both parties approved of the Patriot Act, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. The dems only started backpedaling when it became convenient to do so. They need to keep up the facade of being pacifists, and more importantly, the facade that Republicans are warhawks. They would lose a lot of votes if their party became associated with warfare.
But, seriously, I've found that Win7 with Microsoft Security Essentials really is a pretty sweet deal. Especially if some common sense security measures are used - like Firefox with No-script and AdBlock plus. Don't open emails, don't open attachments - the normal common sense stuff.
I visited some of the nastier drive-by sites during my Win7 tests, and got away from them unscathed. Not bad, really. The worst thing that happened was a browser hijack - but the hijack failed to install the toolbar because Administrator wouldn't enter his password.
But, even so, I won't be lulled into believing that Win7 is truly secure. I only agree that Microsoft can do a better job at security than all the security vendors. The problem in the past has been motivating Microsoft to DO SO!!
Lemme guess, Jon - you don't like girls, and you think computer engineering and programming should be closed boy's clubs, right? Crap, I'm an old dude who remembers when there really WERE closed boy's clubs, in construction, transportation, computing, the military and more. Personally, I welcome women to the real world. If my boss is going to chew my ass out, or push me for more production, I'd MUCH rather stare at her chest, than your ugly mug during the ass-chewing!!
No, now that you mention it - I know about 3000 kids using Windows, and one kid using OpenBSD. And, now that I think about it, at least 2500 WIndows users have nuked and reinstalled multiple times. That nerdy little BSD kid just keeps on going, and going, and going, and going. I think maybe she's getting some of the Energizer Bunny.
You're talking to a man who employed himself between ages 10 and 15, at which time he was legally permitted to enter the "labor market". I've also employed myself twice since then. There is ALWAYS work to be done, for a person who wants to work. It may not pay as much as you would wish, but there is work to be done. That work puts food on the table, clothes on the kids, gas in the car. My youngest son graduated high school this past month. Like his dad, he has employed himself for years. The kid has ALWAYS had money - money that wasn't handed to him because he's a cute little fart.
A man without gainful employment is nothing but a drain on society, and he deserves to eat rice, beans, and 'taters all his life.
Uhhh - you lost it when you claimed that California is bankrupt due to the distribution of wealth - then forgot all about ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS. Yes, of course Cali is bankrupt, but not because they are sending money to other states. They are bankrupt because they have welcomed an invading hoard that eats money like locusts eat crops.
"You need to stop thinking of our economy as one of scarcity and instead one of potential: the hundreds of millions of people in our nation aren't there to work, they are there to occasionally produce a brilliant artist or scientist. Ass sitting and video game playing is what our economy is going to be increasingly about."
That sounds about as asinine as the Communist manifesto. Ass sitters don't deserve to eat. No work, no eat. Produce, or die.
(Hmmm, how do you get to the office printers without putting Windows at risk?)
No need to give Windows any networking at all - even to the printer, if you are concerned about it. The host machine can share any number of folders with the Windows VM. So, you just have Excel save documents to a shared folder, then use your *nix machine to print them.
MS Office is the most legitimate reason to use Microsoft products - but there are multiple methods of installing MS Office onto a *nix box. Probably the fastest, easiest, and most sure, is to fire up a Windows VM, and share the folders where your documents are stored. Some might call that cheating - but I don't care. Call me a cheat. I get the stuff done that I need to get done, in the environment that I choose to work in.
See - this happens in almost every discussion on the web. Someone has to see the issue as a partisan issue. Instead of asking, "How can we fix the problem?" you choose to point your finger, and say, "Well, the problem is THEIR fault!" Blue state, red state, it doesn't matter. Far to many people are sitting on their asses, playing music and video games all day, on the taxpayer's dime, when the COULD find a job.
Oh - did I mention that I have two stepsons, and 3 sons, all of whom are legally adults? Of those 5, only the youngest is actually paying his own way in life. Do I blame our former Democrat governor, or do I blame our current Republican governor for that? DUHHHH - it has almost nothing to do with either party. Or, more accurately, it has a lot to do with BOTH parties currying favor at voting time.
Adolph Hitler was no libertarian. He didn't believe in any personal responsibility, except that everyone was responsible to him. No work, no eat. I wouldn't force a man to work - never. He can sit in the shade, and watch me work all day long. When I break for lunch, and he asks for a bite of my sandwich, I'll happily tell him to eat the south end of a north bound skunk, 'cause he ain't gittin' none o' my sammich.
But, Godwin away. Nothing is stopping you making a fool of yourself. In fact, it's quite common to compare an unpopular point of view with Nazism. Knock yourself out.
Allow me to point out that slavery and indentured servitude are entirely separate things. In fact, there have historically been more than one kind of slavery - but I'll not get into that here. Slavery, as practiced in the United States meant that you were "owned", and that your children were "owned", and that everything YOU might ever own, was actually the property of your master.
Indentured servitude, however, almost always had a term limit, and you were not "owned". You had certain rights, you could own property, you could even earn money that was YOURS while you were indentured. The two most important differences, though, were that servitude had a definite, set period of time, and your children were free, no matter how much time you may have had to serve.
Please, let us not confuse servitude and slavery.
I already mentioned that there were various laws throughout time, regarding slavery. I'll state here, for the record, that slavery as practiced in the United States was the ugliest, most obscene form of slavery ever practiced anywhere. No form of servitude ever was, or ever will be as bad as our slavery was.
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It actually took me a minute to figure out how to change Chromium's user agent string, lol
It works. I hope I don't contribute to the bitter argument between Apple Fanbois and Apple Haters - but it does work, if anyone really wants to try it.
Audio fails, probably because I don't have iTunes, and the VR demo fails because "This demo requires a browser that supports CSS 3D transforms." All the rest work just fine.
Did you just say "jailbreak"? My kid has an iPod that was jailbroken within 4 hours after he got it. (Not a new one - he bought a used one, just so he could jailbreak it. Wasn't worth the risk of bricking a NEW phone!"
Exactly.
There are already posts about loading pages for a few k of content, which total up to megabytes - all because the page is burdened with advertising. Even though I have the slowest, crappiest, highest latency DSL in the world, no page should EVER take a minute to load. I upgraded from dialup just as soon as DSL became available in my area, and the advertisers sucked up every bit of bandwidth that I'm paying for!! Me, I'm PAYING for advertising! Why? I don't want to see ANY of it!
AdBlock Plus, and noscript are essential to browsing the web on dialup and any low-bandwidth plan, as well as for anyone living an hour or two from the big cities. That is just so WRONG, on so many levels.
It's that damned particle accelorator. They created a mini-black hole, and it escaped to Guatemala City. THAT's where all the material went!
AMD leads in availability of features. Intel has always locked features, unless you were willing to PAY for them. All AMD processors are sold with the same virtualization and other capabilities. No matter which price range I am looking at, I'll go with AMD. I never liked Intel very much.
Actually - AMD bought ATI with just this scenario in mind. Make the chips work together, and complement each other. How much more complementary can you get, than putting them on the same chip? Integrated circuits are MUCH faster than trying to pump everything through a pipeline!
I'll fuck off - just as soon as you get off my lawn you young whippersnapper!
To be honest, there is so much irrational hatred for Obama, that it's a little tough picking out the rational hatred. So far, the man has only done two things that I dislike a lot. He favors ACTA, and he favors amnesty for illegal aliens. Other than that, he doesn't appear to have done much of anything that warrants hatred.
"where is the nearest fresh water from your current location, miles?"
HA HA!!! 180 feet! The wells still work, too. Which reminds me - I need to check the covers on those wells. Some damn drunken fool could fall into them, break his neck, and drown. That would ruin the water for a long time to come! Thanks for the reminder.
"How many times have we seen laws "creatively interpreted" to allow someone to do something that might otherwise be considered illegal?"
Eminent Domain. One of the best known times it was used in this (ooops, LAST century, now) century, was when Ike wanted the interstate highway system. Nowadays, any bunch of frat boys can go to city hall, convince the mayor and the city council that they can make more taxes off of a property, and that property is pretty much handed over to the frat boys. I'm quite certain THAT was a pretty creative "interpretation" of eminent domain.
I remember a bit further back than you do. I remember when both parties approved of the Patriot Act, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. The dems only started backpedaling when it became convenient to do so. They need to keep up the facade of being pacifists, and more importantly, the facade that Republicans are warhawks. They would lose a lot of votes if their party became associated with warfare.
I agree with the mods - definitely funny!
But, seriously, I've found that Win7 with Microsoft Security Essentials really is a pretty sweet deal. Especially if some common sense security measures are used - like Firefox with No-script and AdBlock plus. Don't open emails, don't open attachments - the normal common sense stuff.
I visited some of the nastier drive-by sites during my Win7 tests, and got away from them unscathed. Not bad, really. The worst thing that happened was a browser hijack - but the hijack failed to install the toolbar because Administrator wouldn't enter his password.
But, even so, I won't be lulled into believing that Win7 is truly secure. I only agree that Microsoft can do a better job at security than all the security vendors. The problem in the past has been motivating Microsoft to DO SO!!
Lemme guess, Jon - you don't like girls, and you think computer engineering and programming should be closed boy's clubs, right? Crap, I'm an old dude who remembers when there really WERE closed boy's clubs, in construction, transportation, computing, the military and more. Personally, I welcome women to the real world. If my boss is going to chew my ass out, or push me for more production, I'd MUCH rather stare at her chest, than your ugly mug during the ass-chewing!!
"I don't have hackers coming into my house while I'm at work trying to own my computers - " at least that you're aware of.
Of course, given physical access, I can get anything I want from almost any computer, so your point still stands. ;^)
No, now that you mention it - I know about 3000 kids using Windows, and one kid using OpenBSD. And, now that I think about it, at least 2500 WIndows users have nuked and reinstalled multiple times. That nerdy little BSD kid just keeps on going, and going, and going, and going. I think maybe she's getting some of the Energizer Bunny.
"Windows in the hands of a knowledgeable admin" is much more secure than Windows in the hands of a fool.
The rest of your assertion has absolutely no basis in logic, or in fact.
"Here's a hint. Say you are going to write a mean nasty program whos sole purpose is to make you money, and tons of it. "
Alright, who leaked Bill Gate's business plan?
You're talking to a man who employed himself between ages 10 and 15, at which time he was legally permitted to enter the "labor market". I've also employed myself twice since then. There is ALWAYS work to be done, for a person who wants to work. It may not pay as much as you would wish, but there is work to be done. That work puts food on the table, clothes on the kids, gas in the car. My youngest son graduated high school this past month. Like his dad, he has employed himself for years. The kid has ALWAYS had money - money that wasn't handed to him because he's a cute little fart.
A man without gainful employment is nothing but a drain on society, and he deserves to eat rice, beans, and 'taters all his life.
Uhhh - you lost it when you claimed that California is bankrupt due to the distribution of wealth - then forgot all about ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS. Yes, of course Cali is bankrupt, but not because they are sending money to other states. They are bankrupt because they have welcomed an invading hoard that eats money like locusts eat crops.
"You need to stop thinking of our economy as one of scarcity and instead one of potential: the hundreds of millions of people in our nation aren't there to work, they are there to occasionally produce a brilliant artist or scientist. Ass sitting and video game playing is what our economy is going to be increasingly about."
That sounds about as asinine as the Communist manifesto. Ass sitters don't deserve to eat. No work, no eat. Produce, or die.
(Hmmm, how do you get to the office printers without putting Windows at risk?)
No need to give Windows any networking at all - even to the printer, if you are concerned about it. The host machine can share any number of folders with the Windows VM. So, you just have Excel save documents to a shared folder, then use your *nix machine to print them.
MS Office is the most legitimate reason to use Microsoft products - but there are multiple methods of installing MS Office onto a *nix box. Probably the fastest, easiest, and most sure, is to fire up a Windows VM, and share the folders where your documents are stored. Some might call that cheating - but I don't care. Call me a cheat. I get the stuff done that I need to get done, in the environment that I choose to work in.
Hmmm - yes, it does appear that I took you wrong. Sorry 'bout that! :^)
See - this happens in almost every discussion on the web. Someone has to see the issue as a partisan issue. Instead of asking, "How can we fix the problem?" you choose to point your finger, and say, "Well, the problem is THEIR fault!" Blue state, red state, it doesn't matter. Far to many people are sitting on their asses, playing music and video games all day, on the taxpayer's dime, when the COULD find a job.
Oh - did I mention that I have two stepsons, and 3 sons, all of whom are legally adults? Of those 5, only the youngest is actually paying his own way in life. Do I blame our former Democrat governor, or do I blame our current Republican governor for that? DUHHHH - it has almost nothing to do with either party. Or, more accurately, it has a lot to do with BOTH parties currying favor at voting time.
Adolph Hitler was no libertarian. He didn't believe in any personal responsibility, except that everyone was responsible to him. No work, no eat. I wouldn't force a man to work - never. He can sit in the shade, and watch me work all day long. When I break for lunch, and he asks for a bite of my sandwich, I'll happily tell him to eat the south end of a north bound skunk, 'cause he ain't gittin' none o' my sammich.
But, Godwin away. Nothing is stopping you making a fool of yourself. In fact, it's quite common to compare an unpopular point of view with Nazism. Knock yourself out.
Allow me to point out that slavery and indentured servitude are entirely separate things. In fact, there have historically been more than one kind of slavery - but I'll not get into that here. Slavery, as practiced in the United States meant that you were "owned", and that your children were "owned", and that everything YOU might ever own, was actually the property of your master.
Indentured servitude, however, almost always had a term limit, and you were not "owned". You had certain rights, you could own property, you could even earn money that was YOURS while you were indentured. The two most important differences, though, were that servitude had a definite, set period of time, and your children were free, no matter how much time you may have had to serve.
Please, let us not confuse servitude and slavery.
I already mentioned that there were various laws throughout time, regarding slavery. I'll state here, for the record, that slavery as practiced in the United States was the ugliest, most obscene form of slavery ever practiced anywhere. No form of servitude ever was, or ever will be as bad as our slavery was.