Ye are joking, but ye are correct. Take this slashdot page. I used to be able to participate in discussion forum with nothing more than a 1200 baud (1kbit/s) modem. If I tried that today, even with all images turned off, it would take 45 minutes to load this page, mainly due to the enormous CSS files
It would be nice if websites made at least *some* attempt to make their files smaller, and therefore load faster.
>>>Sounds like those "dialup accelerators" from back in the '90s...
Hey I still use one of those you insensitive clod! It's called Netscape Web Accelerator, and it does more than just prefetch requests - it also compresses all text and images to about 10% original size. How else would I watch 90210 streaming videos over my phoneline?
Why I can almost see what looks like a bikini. Man Kelly is hot...;-)
>>>Good luck with that. These people agreed to the terms of service
When Paypal.com was sued for closing people's accounts and taking the money (on grounds those persons violated the TOS), the federal judge threw-out the argument. He said that consumers can not sign-away legally protected rights and directed paypal to refund the cash
I would argue the same is true with Xbox Live - if you bought a year subscription, but only got to use a month of it, you're entitled *per the law* to a refund of the remaining 11 months. XBL can't just keep it.
(checks paperwork). Nope. There's no record here that you purchased me as your personal slave. Which means my mouth belongs to ME, not you, and your command that I "shut up" is null and void. I will work my mouth (or typing fingers) and say whatever I want to say
Goose-stepping Basterds (or whatever it's called) was a piece of trash. It got good reviews from critics and audience members, but I thought it sucked.
- If I had bought the DVD I would have wasted 20 bucks.
- Since I can't afford to waste money, I decided to try before I buy. I downloaded it. If it had been good (like Star Trek) then I would have bought it, but since I thought it was junk, I did not buy.
>>>reach into my home and disable features on a device which I own; I feel compelled to wish someone would kill them until they are dead.
Ditto.
Every TV in my house is analog with either composite or s-video connections. How the hell am I supposed to watch my Bluray movies if the "content providers" turn-off all the analog video outputs? Stupid fuckers.
I told them not to buy Vista. I told them it was broken. They ignored me and said, "But Vista is the latest thing," and bought it anyway. Now they keep asking me for help with a Vista PC that I *told* them would not work.
I also get annoyed when I have to keep repeating myself. "How do I find _____???" "(sigh) The same way I told you eight years ago when you first got a PC. Goto google.com. Type whatever you're looking for." Sometimes I think they just don't listen.
>>>Vista scared me into fits and out of family tech support for life
Ditto. What really pissed me off is when I *specifically said* to my brother and niece, "Don't buy a Vista PC. Vista's broken. Get an XP PC instead (which was still in stores at that point). If you need help call me and I'll even help you buy a good computer," and then they completely ignored my advice.
So now I'm stuck fixing an OS I told them, directly and point-blank, would not work. I should just say, "You ignored my advice. You bought Vista when I said to buy XP. Now it's your problem." But I don't. I'm too nice.
As for Macs they are good systems but expensive. The initial cost is reasonable but the frequent software or hardware upgrades add-up fast.
"You're the shithead that broke it. You fix it, or you pay Best Buy to fix it, or you pay me to fix it. Those are your choices."
As you can tell, after ten years of this, I'm fed up with trying to support my idiot family. I'm tired of giving-up my weekends doing what amounts to my fulltime job - for free.
I was making a semi-humorous point, which seems to have gone over your head. If you to be anal-retentive, heree are some actual figures on how much it cost the United States to save jobs. Note how the government spends more than the damn jobs are worth (in terms of salary):
ID $130,028 per job KS $ 99,077 per job ME $187,220 per job. MI $376,443 per job. NV $97,782 per job. NM $628,989! SC $1,502,839 - each
- where does this thing give the EU power to create a space agency? For that matter, where does the U.S.C. give power to Congress to create NASA? Hmmm.
- trashcan copied - Shutdown procedure copied - Finder Menu copied
It isn't Windows 7 that is remarkable. It's Windows 95 that went-off and blatantly copied the Mac interface (to the point where I said "I feel like I'm using a Mac"), and they've been using the 95-style paradigm ever since then. I'm surprised Apple never bothered to sue.
Perhaps not but if Sun then turned-around and sued you for using the name "Java" for your VM language from twenty years ago, I think you'd be rightfully upset. This has been known to happen before, where a company trademarks a name, and then sues other prior inventors.
>>>I stopped watching American news when I discovered BBC news.
I have a local station that plays news from all over the world, Russia, NHK (China or Korea - I forget which), Deutsche Welle, some French news show, and of course BBC. I don't see any difference between these shows and the 6:30 ABC, CBS, NBC broadcasts. They all follow pretty much the same format.
He failed. Disco never died-out. It was replaced with freestyle, then dance-rap in the 90s, and now we have Rhianna and Lady Gaga creating songs that sound very similar to the old 70s stuff, just with better synthesizers.
I just saw this on NBC this morning, where they received a lot of comments about a girl who had a repetitive sneezing problem. The comments went like this:
- wash out her nose with salt water - tell her to see a chiropractor to get rebalanced - make her jump rope and she'll stop - feed her lots of vitamin A, just short of an overdose!
And so on. I came to the conclusion that most people are incredibly stupid, and I think NBC should have ignored these opinions, and covered something else instead, like why Obama is asking people for donations to the U.S. Treasury. (That's all I know so far, but it sounds like a story worth covering, not wasting time of dumb emailed suggestions.)
Slashdot Mirror
Ye are joking, but ye are correct. Take this slashdot page. I used to be able to participate in discussion forum with nothing more than a 1200 baud (1kbit/s) modem. If I tried that today, even with all images turned off, it would take 45 minutes to load this page, mainly due to the enormous CSS files
It would be nice if websites made at least *some* attempt to make their files smaller, and therefore load faster.
>>>Sounds like those "dialup accelerators" from back in the '90s ...
Hey I still use one of those you insensitive clod! It's called Netscape Web Accelerator, and it does more than just prefetch requests - it also compresses all text and images to about 10% original size. How else would I watch 90210 streaming videos over my phoneline?
Why I can almost see what looks like a bikini. Man Kelly is hot... ;-)
Here you go. The Dirty Old Man's Association - http://www.domai.com/ (warning nudity)
>>>Good luck with that. These people agreed to the terms of service
When Paypal.com was sued for closing people's accounts and taking the money (on grounds those persons violated the TOS), the federal judge threw-out the argument. He said that consumers can not sign-away legally protected rights and directed paypal to refund the cash
I would argue the same is true with Xbox Live - if you bought a year subscription, but only got to use a month of it, you're entitled *per the law* to a refund of the remaining 11 months. XBL can't just keep it.
whoosh
My DVD player has a "fast play" button which works in those cases. You still have to watch the advertisement but it zips by twice as fast.
>>>And finally: sue or shut up.
(checks paperwork). Nope. There's no record here that you purchased me as your personal slave. Which means my mouth belongs to ME, not you, and your command that I "shut up" is null and void. I will work my mouth (or typing fingers) and say whatever I want to say
- Win95 copied the Mac System interface.
Goose-stepping Basterds (or whatever it's called) was a piece of trash. It got good reviews from critics and audience members, but I thought it sucked.
- If I had bought the DVD I would have wasted 20 bucks.
- Since I can't afford to waste money, I decided to try before I buy. I downloaded it. If it had been good (like Star Trek) then I would have bought it, but since I thought it was junk, I did not buy.
- 20 dollars saved.
>>>reach into my home and disable features on a device which I own; I feel compelled to wish someone would kill them until they are dead.
Ditto.
Every TV in my house is analog with either composite or s-video connections. How the hell am I supposed to watch my Bluray movies if the "content providers" turn-off all the analog video outputs? Stupid fuckers.
I told them not to buy Vista. I told them it was broken. They ignored me and said, "But Vista is the latest thing," and bought it anyway. Now they keep asking me for help with a Vista PC that I *told* them would not work.
I also get annoyed when I have to keep repeating myself. "How do I find _____???" "(sigh) The same way I told you eight years ago when you first got a PC. Goto google.com. Type whatever you're looking for." Sometimes I think they just don't listen.
Is Linux more secure from malware because it's more secure, or simply because criminals don't target it?
I suspect the latter.
>>>Vista scared me into fits and out of family tech support for life
Ditto. What really pissed me off is when I *specifically said* to my brother and niece, "Don't buy a Vista PC. Vista's broken. Get an XP PC instead (which was still in stores at that point). If you need help call me and I'll even help you buy a good computer," and then they completely ignored my advice.
So now I'm stuck fixing an OS I told them, directly and point-blank, would not work. I should just say, "You ignored my advice. You bought Vista when I said to buy XP. Now it's your problem." But I don't. I'm too nice.
As for Macs they are good systems but expensive.
The initial cost is reasonable but the frequent
software or hardware upgrades add-up fast.
"You're the shithead that broke it. You fix it, or you pay Best Buy to fix it, or you pay me to fix it. Those are your choices."
As you can tell, after ten years of this, I'm fed up with trying to support my idiot family.
I'm tired of giving-up my weekends doing what amounts to my fulltime job - for free.
I was making a semi-humorous point, which seems to have gone over your head. If you to be anal-retentive, heree are some actual figures on how much it cost the United States to save jobs. Note how the government spends more than the damn jobs are worth (in terms of salary):
ID $130,028 per job
KS $ 99,077 per job
ME $187,220 per job.
MI $376,443 per job.
NV $97,782 per job.
NM $628,989!
SC $1,502,839 - each
continued - http://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+jobs+saved
Rogerborg wrote:
>>>"I do not understand you, culturally impoverished imperialist dog of pig."
abruti
Oh good. Thanks for brightening my day.
"Yes sir. We created all kinds of jobs. They cost a million dollars each and only pay around 0.1 million, but hey, at least they are working."
I think I'm going to go break some windows now, so I can create work for glaziers.
(Mars lander smacks into planet at ballistic speeds)
"I don't understand. By my calculations 1000 foot-pounds was enough thrust to bring the lander to soft landing." - NASA engineer
"Foot-pounds? What the hell are they? I I built the rockets for maximum 1000 newton thrust." - ESA engineer
"Oooops."
(flips through Lisbon Treaty)
- where does this thing give the EU power to create a space agency? For that matter, where does the U.S.C. give power to Congress to create NASA? Hmmm.
WINDOWS 95:
- trashcan copied
- Shutdown procedure copied
- Finder Menu copied
It isn't Windows 7 that is remarkable. It's Windows 95 that went-off and blatantly copied the Mac interface (to the point where I said "I feel like I'm using a Mac"), and they've been using the 95-style paradigm ever since then. I'm surprised Apple never bothered to sue.
Perhaps not but if Sun then turned-around and sued you for using the name "Java" for your VM language from twenty years ago, I think you'd be rightfully upset. This has been known to happen before, where a company trademarks a name, and then sues other prior inventors.
No actually the content across all these world news shows is remarkably similar
>>>I stopped watching American news when I discovered BBC news.
I have a local station that plays news from all over the world, Russia, NHK (China or Korea - I forget which), Deutsche Welle, some French news show, and of course BBC. I don't see any difference between these shows and the 6:30 ABC, CBS, NBC broadcasts. They all follow pretty much the same format.
He failed. Disco never died-out. It was replaced with freestyle, then dance-rap in the 90s, and now we have Rhianna and Lady Gaga creating songs that sound very similar to the old 70s stuff, just with better synthesizers.
I just saw this on NBC this morning, where they received a lot of comments about a girl who had a repetitive sneezing problem. The comments went like this:
- wash out her nose with salt water
- tell her to see a chiropractor to get rebalanced
- make her jump rope and she'll stop
- feed her lots of vitamin A, just short of an overdose!
And so on. I came to the conclusion that most people are incredibly stupid, and I think NBC should have ignored these opinions, and covered something else instead, like why Obama is asking people for donations to the U.S. Treasury. (That's all I know so far, but it sounds like a story worth covering, not wasting time of dumb emailed suggestions.)