So we kicked Iran out of the SWIFT international monetary system, and what did they do? Trade everything in gold to Turkey and China. We've lost the ability to track what they're buying.
The government wants to track everything you buy - hell, Target wants to track everything you buy - and what this will do is make everyone use good old cash. After a while that 3% surcharge will feel like chump change to people who've lost their entire demographic database of purchasers.
So lets see... two FRENCH researchers found something bad in GMO crops? And that it's either lab contaminants or something legit, and they published anyway? Wow, they're trolling the world.
Things a windowing UI should do: Conserve screen pixels: no start/home bar - let me bring up common apps or shell via a right click (hello, TWM and brethren) thin window borders small but simple icons for close/minimize/maximize
NEVER FUCKING STEAL FOCUS
Things your windowing UI should NOT do: be a web browser manage my printers or wireless network interfaces act as a filesystem block when 1 app wedges
We don't need brushed metal, transparencies, cube-shaped 3d representations of your windows, wiggly xterms, just give me a palette to work with and GO AWAY.
We did math the old fashioned way, with a "scientific" calculator, and did the graphs by hand using colored pencils. But I guess nothing of importance was created before the invention of the graphing calculator.
Nobody does that anymore. The defect rate on hardware is so low you don't need to - buy your stuff from Newegg, assemble, and install. Either it's DOA or runs forever.
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So we kicked Iran out of the SWIFT international monetary system, and what did they do? Trade everything in gold to Turkey and China. We've lost the ability to track what they're buying.
The government wants to track everything you buy - hell, Target wants to track everything you buy - and what this will do is make everyone use good old cash. After a while that 3% surcharge will feel like chump change to people who've lost their entire demographic database of purchasers.
Its not quibbling, its "totally wrong".
At $LARGE_US_BANK we are only STARTING to roll Win7 out to the great unwashed. We still need IE6 for about half the bank's applications.
Saying that Win8 is for corporate America is just masturbation.
So lets see... two FRENCH researchers found something bad in GMO crops? And that it's either lab contaminants or something legit, and they published anyway? Wow, they're trolling the world.
Most are blends for cold weather - any diesel motor will run on pure bio.
Why do you always need the latest disposable technology fad? They need you to buy it far more than you need to buy it.
OLPC was always a scam... although I suppose thats why its ending up in Walmart.
With a proper monetary system, the government COULD save money, by stockpiling gold.
YHBTYHLHAND.
mostly led by dewey-eyed 40-somethings who remember their teenage programming years on the BBC B and the like
And what's wrong with that?
Things a windowing UI should do:
Conserve screen pixels:
no start/home bar - let me bring up common apps or shell via a right click (hello, TWM and brethren)
thin window borders
small but simple icons for close/minimize/maximize
NEVER FUCKING STEAL FOCUS
Things your windowing UI should NOT do:
be a web browser
manage my printers or wireless network interfaces
act as a filesystem
block when 1 app wedges
We don't need brushed metal, transparencies, cube-shaped 3d representations of your windows, wiggly xterms, just give me a palette to work with and GO AWAY.
How is it "clear" that the "threats" are "highly intimidating" (which are your words). Who says this isn't a publicity stunt?
It isn't terribly tricky to script an invocation of "explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" on login;
And Windows people claim Linux is "hard" because of its command line and .conf files?
Because people are a) too stupid to understand RF interference, b) they know its bullshit, or c) don't understand English.
Honest question from a long time Linux user - what does FreeBSD give me that CentOS wont?
What problem does Secure Boot solve, other than Microsoft's "other OS" problem?
How much pr0n do you really need?
Who uses IE?
It's filesystems all the way down!
Thank you FreeBSD, for having a useful ZFS implementation. Countless devices around the world exist because of you.
Brilliant !
...and routes around it.
We did math the old fashioned way, with a "scientific" calculator, and did the graphs by hand using colored pencils. But I guess nothing of importance was created before the invention of the graphing calculator.
Nobody does that anymore. The defect rate on hardware is so low you don't need to - buy your stuff from Newegg, assemble, and install. Either it's DOA or runs forever.
Why do I picture a guy frantically photoshopping Windows Explorer screenshots to show that there's still data on the D drive?