Who cares if 10.5 is "better"? Using XP has cost me *nothing* over the last seven years, and it's hard to beat that. I like free.
Aside-
For the record I don't really think Mac OS is better. Back in the 80s and 90s the best OS for home users was AmigaOS with its multimedia and multitasking capabilities. After that died-off, Mac OS 8/9 were acceptable replacements that ran circles around Windows 3 and 95, but since XP hit the market I consider that to be the best OS of this decade.
That explanation would make sense had it been the *other* sorority girl I dated a year earlier, because she loved attention, but not this girl. Over the years I've come to realize she was socially inept, since she was heavily-sheltered by her parents (they wouldn't even let her take a car to college until she was a junior). I think she truly didn't realize that rejection hurts guys. I guess that's a side effect of being a bookworm. Or not having the trauma==pain gene. (shrug)
You don't need to win. You just have to scare your victim (ex-girl) and harass them into wasting their time, money, and effort fighting the case. Ask RIAA. They've perfected this tactic.
This study might explain why some women can treat men like toss-away toys, and not care. If they lack the emotional trauma == physical pain gene, they might not realize that they are causing actual damage, because they've never experienced it themselves. As example:
I recall a girl in college. Really cute and a very smart Bio major. Also a sorority girl so I figured I had scored on all fronts - beauty, brains, and sexy. We went out on a date and it was fantastic, with the night ending with a passionate goodnight kiss. BUT I could never get a followup. First she told me "no" because her ex-boyfriend was coming to visit the next weekend. Talk about shock, surprise, and pain. But I brushed it aside and thought, "Well he's 300 miles way - not a real threat," but she turned me down three more times over the next few months.
Eventually I said, "I just asked you out during Christmas break when we have two weeks of freedom from classes. And you said "no" you're busy. You say no every time I ask you out. If you don't want to go out, please tell me. I'll just stop....." At that point she interrupted, "But I do what to go out with you Jim!" "Really?When?" "I don't know. Maybe in February..." "That's two months from now!" "Yeah. Then what?"
Anyway she seemed to have absolutely no comprehension of the pain she was causing me (rejection). Perhaps she was one of those who does NOT have the emotional trauma == physical pain gene. I suspect there are a lot of women like that in the world, who lack basic empathy for the pain they cause to men. Long-story made short - my friends advised me to forget about her so I stopped calling.
Irony - A year later I saw her on campus and she wanted to know why I stopped calling. She claimed I had hurt her. As if rejecting me four times didn't hurt. (rolls eyes). A typical, socially-inept, clueless female nerd.
>>>it appears to alter the iPhone's distinctive user experience. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality >>>
Oh man.
You make me so hot with your sexy words! (drops panties) Do me now, Mr. Apple Marketer! Ride my love muffin to heaven!
Apple charged me around $100 each year to upgrade my G4 Mac from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5, whereas Microsoft charged me *nothing* to upgrade from XP to XP-SP1 to SP2 to SP3.
I have no love for MS, but I do enjoy cheap products. $0.00 spent on OS upgrades over 7 years time is a pretty good deal for a poor engineer like myself.
There's no sound in space. A few stray molecules of hydrogen is NOT enough to propagate sound. I don't care if you're watching Mars collide with the Earth and go "boom", you're not going to hear anything from your shuttle orbiting the moon.
>>>it seems to me that new energy sources are going to be found before disaster strikes
I doubt it. The new sources like solar and wind cannot produce enough energy to replace all the oil-sourced energy. At best they can do maybe 1/10th and that's an optimistic projection. 1/20th is probably closer to the truth which means we will HAVE to live in an energy-poor society... just like our ancestors did.
That's roughly-equivalent to saying the European Union Parliament should redraw the boundaries between Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. It's not going to happen because the states are proud of their heritage and want to remain the way they are now - as separate, self-contained, self-governing entities. As example Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are almost 500 years old. They like being the way they are now and don't want change.
One change I would like to see is California divided into North and South California, because no one state should control 1/3rd of the electoral votes needed to select a president, but I doubt it will ever happen.
Isaac Asimov's Robot novels (Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, et cetera). Hardly obscure.
Robert Heinlein also wrote an interesting novel, which unfortunately I've forgotten the title, but it was about a generational ship traveling to our nearest star. It was extremely-accurate sciencewise, even excluding the possibility of warpspace, such that the maximum speed limit was lightspeed. It took the ship approximately 50 years to reach the closest star, and I loved that he used that level of realism.
Do authors sometimes mistakes, like when B5 author JMS claimed Jupiter had a temp of -500 celsius? Sure. I can overlook such things, but when an author goes so far as to ignore science completely, then he's no longer writing a science story. He's writing futuristic fantasy - King Arthur and his knights, but moved to the future. I prefer stories that are grounded in reality such that I can say, "Yeah that might happen someday."
I can say that about shows like 24 (terrorists might try to nuke L.A.), and I can say that about Asimov/Heinlein's stories listed above, but cannot say it of Star Wars or Star Trek which often commit acts that are *known* to be impossible.
Actually Sony has the most-standardized interface. They've used the same DualShock controller across the PS1/PS2/PS3 product line, such that you can go back and play a game made in 1995 and still have the same feel.
In contrast I've tried to play Zelda64 or Turok2 on a Wii, and the experience is "wrong". Nintendo has 4 different controllers - one for the SNES, one for the N64, one for the Cube, and one for the Wii. And it's very difficult to play those classic games unless you have the original control.
The NES and SNES are different products. The NES did have that defective zero-insertion-force cartridge load device, but the SNES had a standard topload cartridge which worked flawlessly, exactly the same as on the Sega Genesis and the N64.
By refusing to buy an SNES, or any other Nintendo console, you missed-out on lots of great games (like Final Fantasy 4/5/6, Yoshi's Island, Banjo-kazooie, and Zelda64). To deprive yourself of 20 years of classic gaming simply because an ancient 1983 console that had a poor cart-load design, but which was later fixed in the four succeeding consoles, is an illogical choice.
Sorry I just had to laugh. If this article had been posted 5 years ago about the Sony PlayStation2, the posts from users would have ripped Sony apart, saying what a lousy company Sony is, that Sony should be sued by the government, and put out of business, blah blah blah.
But since it's Microsoft, everyone seems to think it's okay to have a product where half the units fail. "Oh well it's okay because MS will give you a free, new X360 isf your first one fails."
Odd contradiction.
DISCLAIMER: I own the following consoles and/or game machines: Atari, Commodore, Amiga, Nintendo64, Gamecube, PS2, and Wii.
Well since MTA is a regulated monopoly (like the phone and electric companies) one could argue that in exchange for being granted that monopoly by the State, they are obligated to provide schedules free of charge and without copyright. Else, their monopoly will be revoked, and the monopoly given to someone else to operate, like Conrail.
This is the same argument used to force Comcast, Cox, and other cable monopolies to provide free CSPAN service. "Do as we tell you to do, or else you will lose your exclusive license."
>>>I imagine that MTA is a bit like Chicago Transit Authority, operating with a "So, what. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it."
Heh. I can't wait for our Chicago pal Obama to take over:
"So what if you have a broken kneecap and have to wait 12 months to get it replaced. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it." The UK already has this system:
UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES 8 months - cataract surgery 11 months- hip replacement 12 months- knee replacement 5 months - slipped disc 5 months - hernia repair
>>>Seeing as the MTA is a public service, paid for by taxpayers, I don't think there is the same obligation to put up with obnoxious users
And this is why government-run programs suck. It's why Uncle Same Healthcare will suck. The employees inside these monopolies don't believe in customer service ("...under no obligation to put up with the users..."), and we the citizens get ignored, mistreated, et cetera.
Not only would it dissipate quickly, it wouldn't travel any further than the width of an atom. Take the moon mission as example, where the LEM traveled through the vacuum between the earth and the moon. Any sounds made by the men inside traveled to the surface of the vessel, and then stopped. There may have been one or two hydrogen atoms clinging to the skin that were "pushed off" by the sound's vibration, but that hardly qualifies as sound.
>>>Phoenix metro area where I live, there's a bunch of smaller cities like Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, etc., which are all part of the same metro area. >>>
That's just a minor example. According to the Census Bureau, the entire region from New Hampshire's southern border, through Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, is one gigantic urban zone. A continuous city that follows the I-95 corridor. It hasn't quite reached Richmond but I suspect in 20 years that too will be part of the northeast megaopolis.
Asimov predicted this would happen in the 50's Caves of Steel, where Balt-Wash are one city and Philly-New York-Boston are another. They are kept separate for administrative purposes, but could just as easily merge into one unit.
One thing Asimov did not predict is the energy drought. When oil becomes scarce, I think we'll see a rapid downsizing of human population, simply because it will be too expensive to ship food from distant regions, and people will starve. Those that survive will tear-down buildings and grow food locally. The depopulation will be similar to the depopulation that happened to Rome after the empire fell.
I disagree. If the science is not real, then the story doesn't deserve to carry the name "science". There is no room for magic or make-believe in the world of Science, because science is based upon reality.
Put another way, just because Lucas retold his King Arthur-like tale in the future, instead of 1500 years in the past, doesn't change the fact that BOTH are fantasies. King Arthur is not science fiction, and neither is Star Wars.
>>>I imagine that MTA is a bit like Chicago Transit Authority
I can't wait for our Chicago pal Obama to take over: "So what if you have a broken kneecap and have to wait 12 months to get it replaced. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it." The UK already has this system:
UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES 8 months - cataract surgery 11 months- hip replacement 12 months- knee replacement 5 months - slipped disc 5 months - hernia repair
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Who cares if 10.5 is "better"? Using XP has cost me *nothing* over the last seven years, and it's hard to beat that. I like free.
Aside-
For the record I don't really think Mac OS is better. Back in the 80s and 90s the best OS for home users was AmigaOS with its multimedia and multitasking capabilities. After that died-off, Mac OS 8/9 were acceptable replacements that ran circles around Windows 3 and 95, but since XP hit the market I consider that to be the best OS of this decade.
That explanation would make sense had it been the *other* sorority girl I dated a year earlier, because she loved attention, but not this girl. Over the years I've come to realize she was socially inept, since she was heavily-sheltered by her parents (they wouldn't even let her take a car to college until she was a junior). I think she truly didn't realize that rejection hurts guys. I guess that's a side effect of being a bookworm. Or not having the trauma==pain gene. (shrug)
Then goto domai.com, click on the "newletter" link, and enjoy the photos. Self-pleasuring releases the same painkilling endorphins as actual sex.
You don't need to win. You just have to scare your victim (ex-girl) and harass them into wasting their time, money, and effort fighting the case. Ask RIAA. They've perfected this tactic.
This study might explain why some women can treat men like toss-away toys, and not care. If they lack the emotional trauma == physical pain gene, they might not realize that they are causing actual damage, because they've never experienced it themselves. As example:
I recall a girl in college. Really cute and a very smart Bio major. Also a sorority girl so I figured I had scored on all fronts - beauty, brains, and sexy. We went out on a date and it was fantastic, with the night ending with a passionate goodnight kiss. BUT I could never get a followup. First she told me "no" because her ex-boyfriend was coming to visit the next weekend. Talk about shock, surprise, and pain. But I brushed it aside and thought, "Well he's 300 miles way - not a real threat," but she turned me down three more times over the next few months.
Eventually I said, "I just asked you out during Christmas break when we have two weeks of freedom from classes. And you said "no" you're busy. You say no every time I ask you out. If you don't want to go out, please tell me. I'll just stop....." At that point she interrupted, "But I do what to go out with you Jim!" "Really?When?" "I don't know. Maybe in February..." "That's two months from now!" "Yeah. Then what?"
Anyway she seemed to have absolutely no comprehension of the pain she was causing me (rejection). Perhaps she was one of those who does NOT have the emotional trauma == physical pain gene. I suspect there are a lot of women like that in the world, who lack basic empathy for the pain they cause to men. Long-story made short - my friends advised me to forget about her so I stopped calling.
Irony - A year later I saw her on campus and she wanted to know why I stopped calling.
She claimed I had hurt her. As if rejecting me four times didn't hurt.
(rolls eyes). A typical, socially-inept, clueless female nerd.
I LIKE FIRE.
Documents, letters, printouts, hard drives, floppies, dead biides - fire pretty much destroys everything and makes in untraceable.
I remember reading that joke back in 1988 when I first got on the internet, and it probably goes back a few years before that.
Redundant -1 (unsurprisingly)
>>>it appears to alter the iPhone's distinctive user experience. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality
>>>
Oh man.
You make me so hot with your sexy words! (drops panties) Do me now, Mr. Apple Marketer! Ride my love muffin to heaven!
-1 Redundant (big surprise)
Apple charged me around $100 each year to upgrade my G4 Mac from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5, whereas Microsoft charged me *nothing* to upgrade from XP to XP-SP1 to SP2 to SP3.
I have no love for MS, but I do enjoy cheap products. $0.00 spent on OS upgrades over 7 years time is a pretty good deal for a poor engineer like myself.
There's no sound in space. A few stray molecules of hydrogen is NOT enough to propagate sound. I don't care if you're watching Mars collide with the Earth and go "boom", you're not going to hear anything from your shuttle orbiting the moon.
>>>it seems to me that new energy sources are going to be found before disaster strikes
I doubt it. The new sources like solar and wind cannot produce enough energy to replace all the oil-sourced energy. At best they can do maybe 1/10th and that's an optimistic projection. 1/20th is probably closer to the truth which means we will HAVE to live in an energy-poor society... just like our ancestors did.
>>>Personally I think the State boundaries
That's roughly-equivalent to saying the European Union Parliament should redraw the boundaries between Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. It's not going to happen because the states are proud of their heritage and want to remain the way they are now - as separate, self-contained, self-governing entities. As example Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are almost 500 years old. They like being the way they are now and don't want change.
One change I would like to see is California divided into North and South California, because no one state should control 1/3rd of the electoral votes needed to select a president, but I doubt it will ever happen.
Isaac Asimov's Robot novels (Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, et cetera). Hardly obscure.
Robert Heinlein also wrote an interesting novel, which unfortunately I've forgotten the title, but it was about a generational ship traveling to our nearest star. It was extremely-accurate sciencewise, even excluding the possibility of warpspace, such that the maximum speed limit was lightspeed. It took the ship approximately 50 years to reach the closest star, and I loved that he used that level of realism.
Do authors sometimes mistakes, like when B5 author JMS claimed Jupiter had a temp of -500 celsius? Sure. I can overlook such things, but when an author goes so far as to ignore science completely, then he's no longer writing a science story. He's writing futuristic fantasy - King Arthur and his knights, but moved to the future. I prefer stories that are grounded in reality such that I can say, "Yeah that might happen someday."
I can say that about shows like 24 (terrorists might try to nuke L.A.), and I can say that about Asimov/Heinlein's stories listed above, but cannot say it of Star Wars or Star Trek which often commit acts that are *known* to be impossible.
Actually Sony has the most-standardized interface. They've used the same DualShock controller across the PS1/PS2/PS3 product line, such that you can go back and play a game made in 1995 and still have the same feel.
In contrast I've tried to play Zelda64 or Turok2 on a Wii, and the experience is "wrong". Nintendo has 4 different controllers - one for the SNES, one for the N64, one for the Cube, and one for the Wii. And it's very difficult to play those classic games unless you have the original control.
The NES and SNES are different products. The NES did have that defective zero-insertion-force cartridge load device, but the SNES had a standard topload cartridge which worked flawlessly, exactly the same as on the Sega Genesis and the N64.
By refusing to buy an SNES, or any other Nintendo console, you missed-out on lots of great games (like Final Fantasy 4/5/6, Yoshi's Island, Banjo-kazooie, and Zelda64). To deprive yourself of 20 years of classic gaming simply because an ancient 1983 console that had a poor cart-load design, but which was later fixed in the four succeeding consoles, is an illogical choice.
Like a woman.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry I just had to laugh. If this article had been posted 5 years ago about the Sony PlayStation2, the posts from users would have ripped Sony apart, saying what a lousy company Sony is, that Sony should be sued by the government, and put out of business, blah blah blah.
But since it's Microsoft, everyone seems to think it's okay to have a product where half the units fail. "Oh well it's okay because MS will give you a free, new X360 isf your first one fails."
Odd contradiction.
DISCLAIMER: I own the following consoles and/or game machines: Atari, Commodore, Amiga, Nintendo64, Gamecube, PS2, and Wii.
Alright.
Well since MTA is a regulated monopoly (like the phone and electric companies) one could argue that in exchange for being granted that monopoly by the State, they are obligated to provide schedules free of charge and without copyright. Else, their monopoly will be revoked, and the monopoly given to someone else to operate, like Conrail.
This is the same argument used to force Comcast, Cox, and other cable monopolies to provide free CSPAN service. "Do as we tell you to do, or else you will lose your exclusive license."
>>>I imagine that MTA is a bit like Chicago Transit Authority, operating with a "So, what. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it."
Heh. I can't wait for our Chicago pal Obama to take over:
"So what if you have a broken kneecap and have to wait 12 months to get it replaced. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it." The UK already has this system:
UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES
8 months - cataract surgery
11 months- hip replacement
12 months- knee replacement
5 months - slipped disc
5 months - hernia repair
SOURCE - The BBC, May 2009
>>>Seeing as the MTA is a public service, paid for by taxpayers, I don't think there is the same obligation to put up with obnoxious users
And this is why government-run programs suck. It's why Uncle Same Healthcare will suck. The employees inside these monopolies don't believe in customer service ("...under no obligation to put up with the users..."), and we the citizens get ignored, mistreated, et cetera.
Not only would it dissipate quickly, it wouldn't travel any further than the width of an atom. Take the moon mission as example, where the LEM traveled through the vacuum between the earth and the moon. Any sounds made by the men inside traveled to the surface of the vessel, and then stopped. There may have been one or two hydrogen atoms clinging to the skin that were "pushed off" by the sound's vibration, but that hardly qualifies as sound.
>>>Phoenix metro area where I live, there's a bunch of smaller cities like Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, etc., which are all part of the same metro area.
>>>
That's just a minor example. According to the Census Bureau, the entire region from New Hampshire's southern border, through Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, is one gigantic urban zone. A continuous city that follows the I-95 corridor. It hasn't quite reached Richmond but I suspect in 20 years that too will be part of the northeast megaopolis.
Asimov predicted this would happen in the 50's Caves of Steel, where Balt-Wash are one city and Philly-New York-Boston are another. They are kept separate for administrative purposes, but could just as easily merge into one unit.
One thing Asimov did not predict is the energy drought. When oil becomes scarce, I think we'll see a rapid downsizing of human population, simply because it will be too expensive to ship food from distant regions, and people will starve. Those that survive will tear-down buildings and grow food locally. The depopulation will be similar to the depopulation that happened to Rome after the empire fell.
I disagree. If the science is not real, then the story doesn't deserve to carry the name "science". There is no room for magic or make-believe in the world of Science, because science is based upon reality.
Put another way, just because Lucas retold his King Arthur-like tale in the future, instead of 1500 years in the past, doesn't change the fact that BOTH are fantasies. King Arthur is not science fiction, and neither is Star Wars.
>>>I imagine that MTA is a bit like Chicago Transit Authority
I can't wait for our Chicago pal Obama to take over: "So what if you have a broken kneecap and have to wait 12 months to get it replaced. We're sorry for your inconvenience. Now live with it." The UK already has this system:
UK HEALTHCARE WAITING TIMES
8 months - cataract surgery
11 months- hip replacement
12 months- knee replacement
5 months - slipped disc
5 months - hernia repair
SOURCE - The BBC, May 2009