When will people learn? They'll get a few mouth-breathing Zune buyers in their Walmart sales channel, but no real success. Want success? Be cooler and cheaper than the iPhone - does it really cost $95 a month for all that stuff? I think not.
Given that they're 20 years away, IN THE MILLENIUM FALCON, is it even interesting if they are habitable or not? I can picture it now, we use a radio telescope to send "Hello" and wait 40 years to get back "A/S/L ?".
Newsflash: Just like the Republicans let you do whatever you want with your money, as long as Jesus gets your soul, the Democrats don't care what you do with your soul, as long as they get your money. I can't understand the shocked disappointment people express about the Chosen One.
I had a lunatic prof in college who advocated this stuff, along with laser powered lightcraft. The technology really works - as he put it, if we can hit an ICBM at Mach 20 with a laser, we can hit a spot on the (relatively) unmoving Earth with a laser.
Declaring yourself an 'architect' doesn't mean a) you are one or b) you do anything OTHER than vague, powerpointy kinds of things. Given that Facebook is bigger and more complex than anything you have built, you should consider reserving judgment.
While your post hints that you've actually experienced it, I'd argue that you didn't. My Dell Mini runs Ubuntu just fine on 512 MB, no SSD-crushing swapping, no i386 directory, no WGA, no bullshit. It just works. Then again, I am not trying to use it as a desktop replacement - its an internet machine, that also has openoffice when I need to work on a project.
The so-called ad-hominem is not the defense of 'calling out stupid bullshit', the remainder of the post was defence of the thesis of the OP being 'sour'. The Patriot act was cited as an example of how "other guys slid laws through on the same deal". You really missed the entire thing. Just because you are not seeing a coherent point, does not mean that there is not one.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. News Flash: Politicians use these procedural tricks all the time, why do you think that said tricks exist? At someone point, some other guys slid laws through on the same deal. Look at the absurd things the US does - the Patriot Act, Obama's "bailout" plans, that nobody ever reads, but people vote on.
No, this is a classic example of how the creative and greedy contrive to raise everyone's standards - you and I will be able to buy niftier servers in 2 years, all for free because Google was greedy and productive. Or they're evil capitalist parasites. Can't be both.
Companies are hungry if their customers are discriminating. Ever since teenage girls became the primary laptop market, Dell, Apple and whoever else makes them has only had to cater to cute.
I logged into GMail today and saw the CADIE blurb, and promptly forgot about it. Google, if you want to scrape my emails for content-sensitive ads that's cool, but I'm really not interested in Earth, Street View, CADIE, Docs, yadda yadda. Just email, thanks.
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When will people learn? They'll get a few mouth-breathing Zune buyers in their Walmart sales channel, but no real success. Want success? Be cooler and cheaper than the iPhone - does it really cost $95 a month for all that stuff? I think not.
Given that they're 20 years away, IN THE MILLENIUM FALCON, is it even interesting if they are habitable or not? I can picture it now, we use a radio telescope to send "Hello" and wait 40 years to get back "A/S/L ?".
That's MY IP address too! Is the FBI hacking my computer as well?
Remember kids, only criminals use proxies. And only criminals use "an alternate operating system, with a black screen and white characters".
The solution is obvious - nuke the Chinks.
Liberal? check
Brown? check
Intelligensia? check
Farking the public again? check
It might be tough going through life with a name that sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Newsflash: Just like the Republicans let you do whatever you want with your money, as long as Jesus gets your soul, the Democrats don't care what you do with your soul, as long as they get your money. I can't understand the shocked disappointment people express about the Chosen One.
If you live near the receiving plant, the point is very much "can we hit a spot". In fact, its probably the only issue you care about.
I had a lunatic prof in college who advocated this stuff, along with laser powered lightcraft. The technology really works - as he put it, if we can hit an ICBM at Mach 20 with a laser, we can hit a spot on the (relatively) unmoving Earth with a laser.
but with a different mascot, a different package manager, and different themes ?
Snark aside - what does this BSD do that any Linux distro or other BSD doesn't ?
Declaring yourself an 'architect' doesn't mean a) you are one or b) you do anything OTHER than vague, powerpointy kinds of things. Given that Facebook is bigger and more complex than anything you have built, you should consider reserving judgment.
While your post hints that you've actually experienced it, I'd argue that you didn't. My Dell Mini runs Ubuntu just fine on 512 MB, no SSD-crushing swapping, no i386 directory, no WGA, no bullshit. It just works. Then again, I am not trying to use it as a desktop replacement - its an internet machine, that also has openoffice when I need to work on a project.
We can still do that, right?
For any consumer- or end-user-level network, Ohm's law is the one you need to most worry about.
When your screen, SSD, and chipset all use more juice than the CPU, switching to ARM is not the fix.
You are totally uninformed. The Dell Mini ships with Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) with a weird Dell interface, which can be disabled in 1 click.
The so-called ad-hominem is not the defense of 'calling out stupid bullshit', the remainder of the post was defence of the thesis of the OP being 'sour'. The Patriot act was cited as an example of how "other guys slid laws through on the same deal". You really missed the entire thing. Just because you are not seeing a coherent point, does not mean that there is not one.
s/freedom/security/g
This is how freedom dies.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. News Flash: Politicians use these procedural tricks all the time, why do you think that said tricks exist? At someone point, some other guys slid laws through on the same deal. Look at the absurd things the US does - the Patriot Act, Obama's "bailout" plans, that nobody ever reads, but people vote on.
No, this is a classic example of how the creative and greedy contrive to raise everyone's standards - you and I will be able to buy niftier servers in 2 years, all for free because Google was greedy and productive. Or they're evil capitalist parasites. Can't be both.
Because its their datacenters, and they can do what they want. Remember private property and private enterprise?
Companies are hungry if their customers are discriminating. Ever since teenage girls became the primary laptop market, Dell, Apple and whoever else makes them has only had to cater to cute.
I logged into GMail today and saw the CADIE blurb, and promptly forgot about it. Google, if you want to scrape my emails for content-sensitive ads that's cool, but I'm really not interested in Earth, Street View, CADIE, Docs, yadda yadda. Just email, thanks.
Arcane interfaces were a great way to filter out retards and lusers. Why do you think they were so arcane to begin with ?
So, we're back to a command-line interface.