I have unwittingly been involved in a speeded up version of this experiment when travelling south to visit the in-laws at Christmas. 4 days is the equivalent of a year down there. I would have happily greased myself by throwing myself out of an airlock had I been in space.
That's all well and good but how are we to know if any of this is useful until we have managed to put somebody into space? It's all fantasy until then...
I skimmed over your post came out the other end thinking I could get a smartphone with the Nutella OS. It made sense (in my mind) for around a second...
I think you may have spotted the fundamental problem with communism. You need a manual workforce who knows no better and someone to lead that workforce.
The problem with capitalism is that education leads to a top heavy management structure - we all want to be managers and noone wants to be the workers.
Speaking from the UK I can safely say that we saw the Germans off the last couple of times. They would be unwise to try to annex us in a hurry. They can have Belgium though, you know, as a consolation prize.
And that 10% is the 'wow' factor that other companies have difficulty emulating. Apple certainly puts in a lot of effort at the R&D stage but it's not the only company that does.
As long as Apple maintains its position and focus on the last 10% I don't see why it would want to stifle competition.
I'm a fervent Android fan but can understand why the iPhone is massively popular. Having a choice is important but crushing competition leads to a choice of 'iPhone' or 'shit phone'.
Apple is slowly taking the place of Microsoft in the 'who is the biggest monopolistic cock' awards - it needs to tread carefully.
I've not seen the latest Apple firmware but a friend of mine says it steals all of the goodies from Android. Which is fair enough if it's true. All of this benefits the consumer and allows companies to shorten the shelf life of its products thus increasing demand all of the time. Consumers always want the next best thing - never more so than with Apple products - so more innovation leads to more sales which is the only true goal.
Competition is healthy. Did Apple thing it would get a point where it would not have to innovate any more? If so, that would be no good for anybody.
Of course, it won't take long before a defence lawyer lodges an appeal of conviction based on the police using forensic software that they were not licensed to use.
Currently being on Virgin Media I am surprised that the users noticed a breakdows in the data transmission - such is the piss-poor speed offered by VM. Latency is a huge problem unless you opt for one of their premium packages - funny eh?
It is only a matter of time before a Waco or Jonestown-style incident occurs. Westboro will be no more
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Dumbing down is the process that allows mass appeal and take-up. If you had it your way I guess you would still be using the command line. The internet would be the stuff of fantasy. Slashdot would be on a BBS.
I'm no Apple zealot but I can see that Apple products kicked the competition up the ass and forced the competition to, you know, *compete*.
As with Bill Gates, love him or hate him, Steve Jobs' efforts have improved the experience for users of all new tech in the last decade.
My faith in Norton has waned. The last time I used it, it slowed the machine down enough that I could see a virus working through my system in real time.
You never see a botnet on machines with Norton installed. The exponential growth could still be measured on one hand after a month.
At least McAfee let you download an uninstaller (McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool or MCPR.exe) to pick up where the McAfee/Windows uninstaller left off.
So tragic is McAfee the bundled uninstaller turns a pile of shit into a lifeless pile of shit that prevents you from installing any other anti-virus software but provides no protection in the interim. The separate download summons a virtual dustman to take the shit out.
To be fair to McAfee, the virtual dustman does a bang up job.
I hear that in Windows 9 the power button will be disabled thus defeating all virus, malware, user threat. No updates will be required and no internet connection is necessary.
It's no different to some motherboard manufacturers who provide overclocking features. "Yes, we will provide a warranty - but only when used within tolerances that we specify". Seems pretty fair to me.
Whether it is original or not, as long as it works it won't matter. Hopefully in a few years time a more attractive headline would be 'world's first SUCCESSFUL electric car share programme".
I'm no tree hugger but particulate-free air is rather nice in major cities. Or less pollution at any rate...
Rum is great, sodomy must be great - the US churns out an incredible amount of films devoted to the subject, ahem, so I'm told and the lash = corporal punishment = a good thing. Since we got rid of it in our schools the children have become unruly to say the least. I am all for some Battle Royale solution..
Yes, it sounds pathetic as I said in my original post. Are you still reeling from my "The UK mainland is actually made up of 3 countries" comment?
A 55 commute is almost exactly the distance I have to travel tomorrow from the south of Birmingham (Birmingham is the second city in England and surprisingly is not in London, to Northamptonshire which is equidistant to London and Birmingham (this does not mean Northamptonshire is in the middle of London, however).
The journey involves 2 motorways (freeways), 2 A-roads, 2 B-roads and around 8 local roads and is likely to take around 2 hours, maybe slightly less but still a significant chunk of my day in which you would probably imagine me making tea and deciding which smoking jacket I am to wear for my evening meal.
The UK has smaller roads and therefore smaller cars. The roads are twisty and are apt to change altitude frequently and precipitously. In short, driving is tiring. Cruise control is next to useless, roads are congested and all of the fun things have been outlawed - mobile phones (cellphones), TV, eating, drinking and speeding..
The price of fuel is also a factor, it works out to be around $10USD per gallon.
On a plus note, I have never seen a car driving itself haplessly in a circle without a driver. That *never* happens in the UK even though there are some automatic transmission cars. I suspect that PEBWAC is probably to blame.
I couldn't care less about the Olympics. I will happily watch it on TV wherever it might be - I just don't want to have to clear up after everybody has buggered off. I also don't want the cleaning bill. Unfortunately, the government did me over desk with that one so I'll have to live with it...
It bears a mention for our American cousins that London is part of the UK rather than London *being* the UK. The UK mainland is actually made up of 3 countries. Before your minds melt at the thought of fitting 3 countries into London, I refer you back to my first sentence.
In the UK we whine and bitch about travelling 5 miles to work or travelling 200 miles for a holiday (vacation). It sounds pathetic but there are very few straight roads (the remaining ones were largely built by the Romans) so forward progress is slow.
However, lots of people will make the effort to travel to London for the Olympics. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for most people. Over 2 million spectators lined the streets of London to watch the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana so it is most likely that there will be tourists from near and far milling about London during the Olympics sucking up bandwidth and generally getting in the way.
Fortunately I have no intention of attending - it's 106 miles away from me for crying out loud - much too far...
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I have unwittingly been involved in a speeded up version of this experiment when travelling south to visit the in-laws at Christmas. 4 days is the equivalent of a year down there. I would have happily greased myself by throwing myself out of an airlock had I been in space.
That's all well and good but how are we to know if any of this is useful until we have managed to put somebody into space? It's all fantasy until then...
I skimmed over your post came out the other end thinking I could get a smartphone with the Nutella OS. It made sense (in my mind) for around a second...
Even gangsters have time to play Angry Birds.
I think you may have spotted the fundamental problem with communism. You need a manual workforce who knows no better and someone to lead that workforce.
The problem with capitalism is that education leads to a top heavy management structure - we all want to be managers and noone wants to be the workers.
We're doomed.
Speaking from the UK I can safely say that we saw the Germans off the last couple of times. They would be unwise to try to annex us in a hurry. They can have Belgium though, you know, as a consolation prize.
And that 10% is the 'wow' factor that other companies have difficulty emulating. Apple certainly puts in a lot of effort at the R&D stage but it's not the only company that does.
As long as Apple maintains its position and focus on the last 10% I don't see why it would want to stifle competition.
I'm a fervent Android fan but can understand why the iPhone is massively popular. Having a choice is important but crushing competition leads to a choice of 'iPhone' or 'shit phone'.
Apple is slowly taking the place of Microsoft in the 'who is the biggest monopolistic cock' awards - it needs to tread carefully.
I've not seen the latest Apple firmware but a friend of mine says it steals all of the goodies from Android. Which is fair enough if it's true. All of this benefits the consumer and allows companies to shorten the shelf life of its products thus increasing demand all of the time. Consumers always want the next best thing - never more so than with Apple products - so more innovation leads to more sales which is the only true goal.
Competition is healthy. Did Apple thing it would get a point where it would not have to innovate any more? If so, that would be no good for anybody.
Of course, it won't take long before a defence lawyer lodges an appeal of conviction based on the police using forensic software that they were not licensed to use.
Currently being on Virgin Media I am surprised that the users noticed a breakdows in the data transmission - such is the piss-poor speed offered by VM. Latency is a huge problem unless you opt for one of their premium packages - funny eh?
It is only a matter of time before a Waco or Jonestown-style incident occurs. Westboro will be no more
Dumbing down is the process that allows mass appeal and take-up. If you had it your way I guess you would still be using the command line. The internet would be the stuff of fantasy. Slashdot would be on a BBS.
I'm no Apple zealot but I can see that Apple products kicked the competition up the ass and forced the competition to, you know, *compete*.
As with Bill Gates, love him or hate him, Steve Jobs' efforts have improved the experience for users of all new tech in the last decade.
You've clearly not been to the gay club.
My faith in Norton has waned. The last time I used it, it slowed the machine down enough that I could see a virus working through my system in real time.
You never see a botnet on machines with Norton installed. The exponential growth could still be measured on one hand after a month.
At least McAfee let you download an uninstaller (McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool or MCPR.exe) to pick up where the McAfee/Windows uninstaller left off.
So tragic is McAfee the bundled uninstaller turns a pile of shit into a lifeless pile of shit that prevents you from installing any other anti-virus software but provides no protection in the interim. The separate download summons a virtual dustman to take the shit out.
To be fair to McAfee, the virtual dustman does a bang up job.
What - the gay club?
I hear that in Windows 9 the power button will be disabled thus defeating all virus, malware, user threat. No updates will be required and no internet connection is necessary.
It's no different to some motherboard manufacturers who provide overclocking features. "Yes, we will provide a warranty - but only when used within tolerances that we specify". Seems pretty fair to me.
Whether it is original or not, as long as it works it won't matter. Hopefully in a few years time a more attractive headline would be 'world's first SUCCESSFUL electric car share programme".
I'm no tree hugger but particulate-free air is rather nice in major cities. Or less pollution at any rate...
Rum is great, sodomy must be great - the US churns out an incredible amount of films devoted to the subject, ahem, so I'm told and the lash = corporal punishment = a good thing. Since we got rid of it in our schools the children have become unruly to say the least. I am all for some Battle Royale solution..
Cheap stuff always comes in bulk.
Yes, it sounds pathetic as I said in my original post. Are you still reeling from my "The UK mainland is actually made up of 3 countries" comment?
A 55 commute is almost exactly the distance I have to travel tomorrow from the south of Birmingham (Birmingham is the second city in England and surprisingly is not in London, to Northamptonshire which is equidistant to London and Birmingham (this does not mean Northamptonshire is in the middle of London, however).
The journey involves 2 motorways (freeways), 2 A-roads, 2 B-roads and around 8 local roads and is likely to take around 2 hours, maybe slightly less but still a significant chunk of my day in which you would probably imagine me making tea and deciding which smoking jacket I am to wear for my evening meal.
The UK has smaller roads and therefore smaller cars. The roads are twisty and are apt to change altitude frequently and precipitously. In short, driving is tiring. Cruise control is next to useless, roads are congested and all of the fun things have been outlawed - mobile phones (cellphones), TV, eating, drinking and speeding..
The price of fuel is also a factor, it works out to be around $10USD per gallon.
On a plus note, I have never seen a car driving itself haplessly in a circle without a driver. That *never* happens in the UK even though there are some automatic transmission cars. I suspect that PEBWAC is probably to blame.
We'll need it.
I couldn't care less about the Olympics. I will happily watch it on TV wherever it might be - I just don't want to have to clear up after everybody has buggered off. I also don't want the cleaning bill. Unfortunately, the government did me over desk with that one so I'll have to live with it...
Fellatio can only do half-duplex though. Which is just as well...
It bears a mention for our American cousins that London is part of the UK rather than London *being* the UK. The UK mainland is actually made up of 3 countries. Before your minds melt at the thought of fitting 3 countries into London, I refer you back to my first sentence.
In the UK we whine and bitch about travelling 5 miles to work or travelling 200 miles for a holiday (vacation). It sounds pathetic but there are very few straight roads (the remaining ones were largely built by the Romans) so forward progress is slow.
However, lots of people will make the effort to travel to London for the Olympics. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for most people. Over 2 million spectators lined the streets of London to watch the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana so it is most likely that there will be tourists from near and far milling about London during the Olympics sucking up bandwidth and generally getting in the way.
Fortunately I have no intention of attending - it's 106 miles away from me for crying out loud - much too far...