Or, instead of "gold diggers," they might be women who view security and stability in a man about the same way we view a huge rack or willingness to play WoW with us. You know, like pretty much every girl on the planet. Of course gold diggers, users, what have you are out there, but I don't think you can ascribe this entire phenomenon to just that. Rather, it's probably that any westerner of even modest means is, relatively, fantastically rich compared to the locals.
I randomly choose you to hop in and reply to the overheating thing. Of course my experience is as anecdotal as anyone else's, but I guess I've been lucky. My sheevaplug has been running under pretty high load for a couple of years, and I've never had a problem. Just wanted to leaven "it's asplode!" reports with a good one.
I don't think I'll go much further with this, but for someone with such an obviously high opinion of your own intelligence, you don't read very well. I never said we have "no" air defense. That would indeed be stupid. What I said was, on that day it failed. The one time we actually needed it, it didn't perform. You can make all the apologies you want, but that's a fact. Construct all the straw men you want about me suggesting we blow every airline out of the sky based on our psychic premonitions of the accident before it happened. People can read what I actually wrote and judge for themselves.
Nobody realized anything was wrong until it was too late? Sorry if I strike you as a moron, but I don't think the official time line, never mind the more conspiratorial conjectures, supports that statement. Of course there are material differences between a civilian hijacking and an overt military assault, but I'll stand behind my original statement.
Agreed that WebOS needs some new hardware, but that's coming. I'm not sure what kind of software update you think it needs, but it seems already way out in front to me. It's the apps where it really falls behind android and iOS. The single greatest boost webOS could get is for Google to make their various services on par with android, but I don't think they have any motivation to do so.
Yeah, it's that "stagnant" part that I now fear. I stayed for 10 years with one company (University hospital, technically) because the work was interdisciplinary (therefore interesting), I liked every one I worked for/with *a lot*, and it was just generally a low-bs environment. Then I got married, started planning a family, and the moolah suddenly started looking a lot more important to me, so I jumped. Turns out spending 10 years with one place is a big stigma with some people. So, if you jump a lot, that's bad. If you don't jump often enough, that's bad too. I guess there's some sweet spot, but I don't know what it is. That or, more likely, interviewers will just fish for whatever BS they think they can hang a low-balled offer for salary on.
Perhaps true, but it is not a satisfying answer to Fermi's paradox. Tippler and others have made good arguments for colonization/exploration by robotic probes, which we also have no evidence of. Maybe it's evidence that strong AI is exceedingly difficult?
I did 8 years on 637 class fast attacks. Maybe you served on subs as well and had a different experience, but that whole "better meals" thing is a myth. As anyone who ever cranked can tell you (or heck, anybody who ever did a stores load, which is basically everybody), there's not that much storage space and especially not much refrigerated storage space. Meals were OK for the first few weeks, maybe, but they quickly went to crap. We ran out of pretty much everything and had to food ration a couple of times, but those were admittedly extenuating circumstances.
Admittedly I'm getting a little out of my depth here, but as I understand it the linux kernel is the place where those drivers go, and there are quite a lot of them. In theory, if a driver exists and it's publicly available, it *should* be in the kernel. I believe that's why you read so many posts about "more devices supported natively in linux than in windows." Of course there's room for improvement, and I'm fighting a less-than-perfect install of Ubuntu NBR 10.04 on a Toshiba NB305 as we speak.
There is a difference between vendor-supplied windows disks for *your* machine, vs. vanilla Windows applied to random hardware, which would be more analogous to an ubuntu install.
To what degree would it have been possible to install Windows with no help? Better to consider buying each box with the OS pre-installed, because normal users would find many snags installing windows to bare metal, too. It's an old point, I know, but apparently it keeps needing to be restated.
I use my sheevaplug to stream my music and videos with ampache to my phone or remote computers. I do other things with it as well (rtorrent/rtgui, etc), but that's the one I haven't seen anybody mention yet.
WebOS is a serious competitor, but it has the same chicken and egg problem with developers that desktop linux suffers from. I just wanted to add that, since you only mentioned Android.
Sorry if my attempt at a joke made it sound like I was criticising something. I wasn't. I like Wave and I love Mage, and was just wondering if I could play or at least lurk.
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Or, instead of "gold diggers," they might be women who view security and stability in a man about the same way we view a huge rack or willingness to play WoW with us. You know, like pretty much every girl on the planet. Of course gold diggers, users, what have you are out there, but I don't think you can ascribe this entire phenomenon to just that. Rather, it's probably that any westerner of even modest means is, relatively, fantastically rich compared to the locals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_TV_Binary_Interchange_Format
Yes, and Facebook, too. It just looks like another terminal full of text to random higher ups cruising the floor.
What is this "long term" thing that you speak of? It sounds intriguing....
I randomly choose you to hop in and reply to the overheating thing. Of course my experience is as anecdotal as anyone else's, but I guess I've been lucky. My sheevaplug has been running under pretty high load for a couple of years, and I've never had a problem. Just wanted to leaven "it's asplode!" reports with a good one.
Dude, you *have* no holy land.
Well those folks are well on their way to getting their way, so I hope you're wrong.
I don't think I'll go much further with this, but for someone with such an obviously high opinion of your own intelligence, you don't read very well. I never said we have "no" air defense. That would indeed be stupid. What I said was, on that day it failed. The one time we actually needed it, it didn't perform. You can make all the apologies you want, but that's a fact. Construct all the straw men you want about me suggesting we blow every airline out of the sky based on our psychic premonitions of the accident before it happened. People can read what I actually wrote and judge for themselves.
And yet we failed on the day it counted. I see I've already been modded "flamebait," a first for me. Oh well.
Nobody realized anything was wrong until it was too late? Sorry if I strike you as a moron, but I don't think the official time line, never mind the more conspiratorial conjectures, supports that statement. Of course there are material differences between a civilian hijacking and an overt military assault, but I'll stand behind my original statement.
"In terms of defense against air attacks? Yes, tons."
Except for that whole 9/11 thing.
Agreed that WebOS needs some new hardware, but that's coming. I'm not sure what kind of software update you think it needs, but it seems already way out in front to me. It's the apps where it really falls behind android and iOS. The single greatest boost webOS could get is for Google to make their various services on par with android, but I don't think they have any motivation to do so.
Yeah, it's that "stagnant" part that I now fear. I stayed for 10 years with one company (University hospital, technically) because the work was interdisciplinary (therefore interesting), I liked every one I worked for/with *a lot*, and it was just generally a low-bs environment. Then I got married, started planning a family, and the moolah suddenly started looking a lot more important to me, so I jumped. Turns out spending 10 years with one place is a big stigma with some people. So, if you jump a lot, that's bad. If you don't jump often enough, that's bad too. I guess there's some sweet spot, but I don't know what it is. That or, more likely, interviewers will just fish for whatever BS they think they can hang a low-balled offer for salary on.
Perhaps true, but it is not a satisfying answer to Fermi's paradox. Tippler and others have made good arguments for colonization/exploration by robotic probes, which we also have no evidence of. Maybe it's evidence that strong AI is exceedingly difficult?
*Whooosh*
The quality of the keyboard is excellent. It's the only thing I like about the older one that work forces me to use.
I did 8 years on 637 class fast attacks. Maybe you served on subs as well and had a different experience, but that whole "better meals" thing is a myth. As anyone who ever cranked can tell you (or heck, anybody who ever did a stores load, which is basically everybody), there's not that much storage space and especially not much refrigerated storage space. Meals were OK for the first few weeks, maybe, but they quickly went to crap. We ran out of pretty much everything and had to food ration a couple of times, but those were admittedly extenuating circumstances.
Admittedly I'm getting a little out of my depth here, but as I understand it the linux kernel is the place where those drivers go, and there are quite a lot of them. In theory, if a driver exists and it's publicly available, it *should* be in the kernel. I believe that's why you read so many posts about "more devices supported natively in linux than in windows." Of course there's room for improvement, and I'm fighting a less-than-perfect install of Ubuntu NBR 10.04 on a Toshiba NB305 as we speak.
There is a difference between vendor-supplied windows disks for *your* machine, vs. vanilla Windows applied to random hardware, which would be more analogous to an ubuntu install.
To what degree would it have been possible to install Windows with no help? Better to consider buying each box with the OS pre-installed, because normal users would find many snags installing windows to bare metal, too. It's an old point, I know, but apparently it keeps needing to be restated.
I use my sheevaplug to stream my music and videos with ampache to my phone or remote computers. I do other things with it as well (rtorrent/rtgui, etc), but that's the one I haven't seen anybody mention yet.
WebOS is a serious competitor, but it has the same chicken and egg problem with developers that desktop linux suffers from. I just wanted to add that, since you only mentioned Android.
Don't forget the pre. We're left out, too.
Sorry if my attempt at a joke made it sound like I was criticising something. I wasn't. I like Wave and I love Mage, and was just wondering if I could play or at least lurk.
Mage over wave, you say? How can I subscribe to your newsletter? :)