I knew that it wouldn't take long before some fanboy or astroturfer set us all right. I read TFA, and Ballmer isn't happy with either 6.5 or 7 - so, what more is there? Apparently there was a version 6 and a 6.1, are there more? Ahhh, there was a verion 5. I guess that one wasn't screwed up?
"Bloggers attending Microsoft's Venture Capital Summit reported today that Ballmer said Microsoft "screwed up with Windows Mobile" and changed the Windows Mobile team recently to try to recoup losses."
For once, I have to agree with Ballmer. If he says Windows Mobile is screwed up, I have to believe that Microsoft has screwed that damned pooch!!
Once an android is modded, can't the user download gmail and whatever else from Google directly, for installation? I don't own an android, much less a modded one - I'm kinda ignorant here.....
This is not something that I would bet on. From time to time, I've made asshat remarks that were modded up, as funny, informative, even insightful. Other, more serious posts are modded as - well, you get the idea. Note that I'm smart enough to know that sometimes I am an asshat - and the moderators often aren't smart enough to figure it out.
Uhhhmmm - actually - I was asked every time I crossed the border between the US and Canada BEFORE 9/11. Have they relaxed border security since 9/11?
Short story from 1999: GORGEOUS blonde big busted Canadian lady questioned me at the Windsor/Detroit crossing. Satisfied with my answers, she leaned into the cab of the truck, to question my partner in the passenger seat. "Are you a US Citizen?" "No Ma'am." "Where are you from, sir?" "I'm from South Texas!"
I just held my breath, waiting for all hell to break loose. After a couple seconds of silence, she leaned back out of the truck, and looked at me like I was crazy to be riding around with some retard. A few more questions about firearms, drugs, radar detectors, and she let us go.
I think she felt sorry for me is the only reason she didn't call for reinforcements to lock us up.
God, that woman was beautiful. I really wish she had taken me home, and locked me up in her apartment!!
The Feds were given authority to regulate interstate commerce. Look it up - it's constitutional. You may or may not agree with a lot of legal decisions that have been made regarding that authority, but it has a basis in the constitution.
Before you bellyache that Mexico and/or Country "X" is not a "state", perhaps you will want to look that up to. All sovereign nations are "states". So, if Country "X" ships any quantity of anything at all, including persons, to any member state of the United States, it is subject to interstate commerce regulations, enforced by the Fed.
"Windows has not intuitiveness. The only reason why we think it has is because most people have been using it for 20 some odd years."
Exactly. Those old exclusivity agreements that MS insisted on are still paying off. People are used to MS, and anything different is "wrong".
Not to mention - Dell, Compaq, and other OEMS basically did all of MS hardware compatibility for them. Linux is still struggling to make some hardware work that was "designed for Windows".
Just a few years of unfair advantage can translate into decades of revenues.
Clueless users should have a meaningful feedback channel. And, to some extent, developers should try to fix the things that clueless can't figure out.
But, I'm afraid that these "experts" will be handpicked, for one set of characteristics or another. In the end, the community is likely to be hammered into someone's idea of what Linux "should be".
The real question is, "Why are you so hung up on Malda's penis?" Most of us more normal people never give Malda a thought, much less his penis. If you really, really, really want to make Babby Malda, you should discuss it with him in private. Really, jealousy gets you nowhere.
Yes, I test drove one of those plugins some time ago. It's so long ago, I can't even remember which one. After just a few hours, I uninstalled it. User comments were more than 90% frivolous, 5% pure stupid, and the remainder made me doubt my understanding of the English language, if not my sanity.
I might try this, I might not, but I certainly don't have any high hopes for it.
And, things like this are so aggravating. I see what's before my eyes, and AC experiences something quite different. WHY? If I were to make a "bug report", would this behaviour be reproducible, or not? GAHHHHH!!!
Hey - take a look at these pages, and make your own conversions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_range_of_Japanese_Anti-aircraft_guns_-_world_war_II.png In world war 2, the Japanese were reaching up as high as 20 kilometers with AA guns. They could reach elevations being discussed above at horizontal ranges of ~14 kilometers Pretty awesome - I didn't even realize they could reach that far!! The charts imply that those were "effective" ranges, not theoretical.
Found some other cool pages with newer weapons that are pretty remarkable - but it's HIGHLY unlikely that any of those will be found in Afghanistan. Iran, maybe - they have money. Afghanistan? No way.
Correct - BUT, I am trying to consider the "average user". Like my wife, for instance. I finally weaned her from Microsoft, and she's perfectly happy on Ubuntu. But, HER Ubuntu looks nothing like MY version Ubuntu. If her flash don't flash, she'll throw a fit. She's not a fashion nut, but she still wants to see what's "hot" - meaning she READS those stupid advertisements! Did I mention that on a shared connection, her flash games and adverts slow down MY connection?
"Do people actually think Google's strategy is to make Google apps really popular and then break compatibility with non-chrome browsers by making them no longer use Web standards?"
To be fair, if compatibility with IE is broken (either by Google or by MS) then SOME people are going to realize they've lost something. I expect that IE would lose some measurable market share, in that case. Let's remember - there are two groups of browsers: standards compliant, and non-standards compliant. IE is pretty much alone in that second group.;^)
Benchmarks aside, I feel like Chrome is the slowest thing on earth, because I see NOTHING until the page is finished loading. I try to be objective. I'll load the same page in Chrome and in FF. True, the page FINISHES about the same time, but with FF, I can see bits and pieces as they become available. Since I am interested in the text most of the time, it doesn't matter how long it takes for some other element to load - I'm never going to look at it. I WANT MY TEXT NOW!!
That said - I agree with those who say web pages are to complicated today. Add in useless bloat like flash, advertising, etc. I can't browse any faster today with DSL than I did a few years ago with dial up! Something is badly wrong here.
And if we're talking artillery, why bother with a howitzer on a slope, when half the world got one or more of this [wikipedia.org] or this [wikipedia.org] or even more likely this [wikipedia.org] from the Soviets. I know at least Iraq had a lot of the latter.
Disclaimer: I'm not an AA man. But, I'm pretty sure the two larger AA guns in his links can reach, and the smaller 57mm may very well reach. Let's remember that 20,000 feet is only about 3 3/4 miles.
Sure. RTFA. Or, are you cross posting from another dimension? Company A distributed binaries to Company B. Company B requested the source, which Company A denied. Company B sued, and was awarded the source, along with all their court costs and other expenses. Company A has been bitten, right in the pocket book.
IMHO, there should have been a punitive award of some sort, but I'm no lawyer.
Bad analogies don't make any sort of an argument. I said nothing about rape, or corpses, and I don't see how even the worst analogy applies here.
I asked, quite simply, if public domain is actively defended? Can something be removed from public domain? Whether it can or not, if a corporation USES something that is public domain, do they have any obligations regarding that use?
With GPL, there are obligations, and there are people actively defending it. I asked to be convinced, not mocked, thank you.
I'm not sure THAT's a great idea. Convince me, please. Are you sure that public domain has any force or power to ensure that it is NOT abused? GPL at least has teeth to bite it's abusers.
"many plugins have permissions the browser doesn't allow itself."
Kinda bass ackwards? The OPERATING SYSTEM is supposed to allow or disallow permissions, not the browser. Oddly, I don't think your statement is bass ackwards - rather, MS has their security and convenience priorities bass ackwards.
I will agree that MS has cleaned up browser security a lot. I was actually impressed with IE7, when it was locked down for server use. Default installation of IE8 on Win 7 does seem decently secure. But - the whacko boys haven't had a lot of time to attack it yet, either. Past history says, give it a few months. There are sure to be some "OH SHIT! I DIDN'T THINK THEY COULD DO THAT!" posts, here and elsewhere.
I agree 100% that this airship would be worthless against a decently funded opponent with access to WW2 weapons and munitions.
Regarding the targeting of ground based weapons - remember, this airship is to play the role of an AWACS. I don't expect that it is as effective as AWACS, but it doesn't sit up there unattended. It is meant to find targets for ground and/or air forces. Paint it with radar, it relays the info to a combat control center, and someone is given a strike mission. That could mean the enemy has several minutes to fire at the airship - or, it could mean they only have several seconds. A well trained gun crew only needs those seconds to kill a target, a poorly trained gun crew might never hit the target.
So many variables.
Personally, I wouldn't invest money in this airship, but it could very well prove worthwhile.
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Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile"
I knew that it wouldn't take long before some fanboy or astroturfer set us all right. I read TFA, and Ballmer isn't happy with either 6.5 or 7 - so, what more is there? Apparently there was a version 6 and a 6.1, are there more? Ahhh, there was a verion 5. I guess that one wasn't screwed up?
"Bloggers attending Microsoft's Venture Capital Summit reported today that Ballmer said Microsoft "screwed up with Windows Mobile" and changed the Windows Mobile team recently to try to recoup losses."
For once, I have to agree with Ballmer. If he says Windows Mobile is screwed up, I have to believe that Microsoft has screwed that damned pooch!!
Once an android is modded, can't the user download gmail and whatever else from Google directly, for installation? I don't own an android, much less a modded one - I'm kinda ignorant here.....
It makes sense, actually. Thanks for posting! :-)
"mentally stable mods"
This is not something that I would bet on. From time to time, I've made asshat remarks that were modded up, as funny, informative, even insightful. Other, more serious posts are modded as - well, you get the idea. Note that I'm smart enough to know that sometimes I am an asshat - and the moderators often aren't smart enough to figure it out.
What can you do?
Uhhhmmm - actually - I was asked every time I crossed the border between the US and Canada BEFORE 9/11. Have they relaxed border security since 9/11?
Short story from 1999:
GORGEOUS blonde big busted Canadian lady questioned me at the Windsor/Detroit crossing. Satisfied with my answers, she leaned into the cab of the truck, to question my partner in the passenger seat. "Are you a US Citizen?" "No Ma'am." "Where are you from, sir?" "I'm from South Texas!"
I just held my breath, waiting for all hell to break loose. After a couple seconds of silence, she leaned back out of the truck, and looked at me like I was crazy to be riding around with some retard. A few more questions about firearms, drugs, radar detectors, and she let us go.
I think she felt sorry for me is the only reason she didn't call for reinforcements to lock us up.
God, that woman was beautiful. I really wish she had taken me home, and locked me up in her apartment!!
The Feds were given authority to regulate interstate commerce. Look it up - it's constitutional. You may or may not agree with a lot of legal decisions that have been made regarding that authority, but it has a basis in the constitution.
Before you bellyache that Mexico and/or Country "X" is not a "state", perhaps you will want to look that up to. All sovereign nations are "states". So, if Country "X" ships any quantity of anything at all, including persons, to any member state of the United States, it is subject to interstate commerce regulations, enforced by the Fed.
Get used to it.
They share a mailing address in Oakland, California. Need I say more?
"The border patrol is just looking for stupid criminals"
Like the ones who tried to crash the gates at San Ysidro yesterday?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-border23-2009sep23,0,1977503.story
Morons.
"Windows has not intuitiveness. The only reason why we think it has is because most people have been using it for 20 some odd years."
Exactly. Those old exclusivity agreements that MS insisted on are still paying off. People are used to MS, and anything different is "wrong".
Not to mention - Dell, Compaq, and other OEMS basically did all of MS hardware compatibility for them. Linux is still struggling to make some hardware work that was "designed for Windows".
Just a few years of unfair advantage can translate into decades of revenues.
Clueless users should have a meaningful feedback channel. And, to some extent, developers should try to fix the things that clueless can't figure out.
But, I'm afraid that these "experts" will be handpicked, for one set of characteristics or another. In the end, the community is likely to be hammered into someone's idea of what Linux "should be".
Shuttleworth's idea? If not, whose idea?
Hopefully not Microsoft's!
Just because they grow drugs, doesn't mean they have drugstores. They are for sale to us idiot rich Americans, not to morally upright Moslems.
No way, dude! If it were truly insightful, I would have thought of it first!!
It was funny though. ;^)
The real question is, "Why are you so hung up on Malda's penis?" Most of us more normal people never give Malda a thought, much less his penis. If you really, really, really want to make Babby Malda, you should discuss it with him in private. Really, jealousy gets you nowhere.
Yes, I test drove one of those plugins some time ago. It's so long ago, I can't even remember which one. After just a few hours, I uninstalled it. User comments were more than 90% frivolous, 5% pure stupid, and the remainder made me doubt my understanding of the English language, if not my sanity.
I might try this, I might not, but I certainly don't have any high hopes for it.
And, things like this are so aggravating. I see what's before my eyes, and AC experiences something quite different. WHY? If I were to make a "bug report", would this behaviour be reproducible, or not? GAHHHHH!!!
Maybe I need to look at configurations again....
Hey - take a look at these pages, and make your own conversions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_range_of_Japanese_Anti-aircraft_guns_-_world_war_II.png
In world war 2, the Japanese were reaching up as high as 20 kilometers with AA guns. They could reach elevations being discussed above at horizontal ranges of ~14 kilometers Pretty awesome - I didn't even realize they could reach that far!! The charts imply that those were "effective" ranges, not theoretical.
http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/AA_GUNS2.htm
This pre-WW2 Bofors was reaching as high as 5 kilometers
Found some other cool pages with newer weapons that are pretty remarkable - but it's HIGHLY unlikely that any of those will be found in Afghanistan. Iran, maybe - they have money. Afghanistan? No way.
Correct - BUT, I am trying to consider the "average user". Like my wife, for instance. I finally weaned her from Microsoft, and she's perfectly happy on Ubuntu. But, HER Ubuntu looks nothing like MY version Ubuntu. If her flash don't flash, she'll throw a fit. She's not a fashion nut, but she still wants to see what's "hot" - meaning she READS those stupid advertisements! Did I mention that on a shared connection, her flash games and adverts slow down MY connection?
You're right, but,
"Do people actually think Google's strategy is to make Google apps really popular and then break compatibility with non-chrome browsers by making them no longer use Web standards?"
To be fair, if compatibility with IE is broken (either by Google or by MS) then SOME people are going to realize they've lost something. I expect that IE would lose some measurable market share, in that case. Let's remember - there are two groups of browsers: standards compliant, and non-standards compliant. IE is pretty much alone in that second group. ;^)
This! ^
Benchmarks aside, I feel like Chrome is the slowest thing on earth, because I see NOTHING until the page is finished loading. I try to be objective. I'll load the same page in Chrome and in FF. True, the page FINISHES about the same time, but with FF, I can see bits and pieces as they become available. Since I am interested in the text most of the time, it doesn't matter how long it takes for some other element to load - I'm never going to look at it. I WANT MY TEXT NOW!!
That said - I agree with those who say web pages are to complicated today. Add in useless bloat like flash, advertising, etc. I can't browse any faster today with DSL than I did a few years ago with dial up! Something is badly wrong here.
posted by Moraelin:
And if we're talking artillery, why bother with a howitzer on a slope, when half the world got one or more of this [wikipedia.org] or this [wikipedia.org] or even more likely this [wikipedia.org] from the Soviets. I know at least Iraq had a lot of the latter.
Disclaimer: I'm not an AA man. But, I'm pretty sure the two larger AA guns in his links can reach, and the smaller 57mm may very well reach. Let's remember that 20,000 feet is only about 3 3/4 miles.
Sure. RTFA. Or, are you cross posting from another dimension? Company A distributed binaries to Company B. Company B requested the source, which Company A denied. Company B sued, and was awarded the source, along with all their court costs and other expenses. Company A has been bitten, right in the pocket book.
IMHO, there should have been a punitive award of some sort, but I'm no lawyer.
Bad analogies don't make any sort of an argument. I said nothing about rape, or corpses, and I don't see how even the worst analogy applies here.
I asked, quite simply, if public domain is actively defended? Can something be removed from public domain? Whether it can or not, if a corporation USES something that is public domain, do they have any obligations regarding that use?
With GPL, there are obligations, and there are people actively defending it. I asked to be convinced, not mocked, thank you.
I'm not sure THAT's a great idea. Convince me, please. Are you sure that public domain has any force or power to ensure that it is NOT abused? GPL at least has teeth to bite it's abusers.
"many plugins have permissions the browser doesn't allow itself."
Kinda bass ackwards? The OPERATING SYSTEM is supposed to allow or disallow permissions, not the browser. Oddly, I don't think your statement is bass ackwards - rather, MS has their security and convenience priorities bass ackwards.
I will agree that MS has cleaned up browser security a lot. I was actually impressed with IE7, when it was locked down for server use. Default installation of IE8 on Win 7 does seem decently secure. But - the whacko boys haven't had a lot of time to attack it yet, either. Past history says, give it a few months. There are sure to be some "OH SHIT! I DIDN'T THINK THEY COULD DO THAT!" posts, here and elsewhere.
I agree 100% that this airship would be worthless against a decently funded opponent with access to WW2 weapons and munitions.
Regarding the targeting of ground based weapons - remember, this airship is to play the role of an AWACS. I don't expect that it is as effective as AWACS, but it doesn't sit up there unattended. It is meant to find targets for ground and/or air forces. Paint it with radar, it relays the info to a combat control center, and someone is given a strike mission. That could mean the enemy has several minutes to fire at the airship - or, it could mean they only have several seconds. A well trained gun crew only needs those seconds to kill a target, a poorly trained gun crew might never hit the target.
So many variables.
Personally, I wouldn't invest money in this airship, but it could very well prove worthwhile.