I've never really loved Ribbon UIs, but only because of PEBKACs around me coming to me whining cause they're useless at looking at something right in front of them. Why switching Explorer to a Ribbon UI sounds like a good move to me is because they're using it in other flagship products that actually sort of require and benefit from that kind of workflow. While Explorer could probably get away with a less able UI, the droves of PEBKACs that roam the planet will whimper and annoy slightly less if Explorer as the same UI as they see in other places. Old school PEBKACs will whine regardless, but new ones will not reach their peak crying-volume, thanks to decisions like this. I may loathe most things Microsoft, but really, I think they made a call that makes the average sanity level just a little better than if they'd done anything else. Now, if the MS Office team decides to make a totally new UI shortly after this, that'll be like the best self-trolling since Chris Crocker.
Maybe this just means guitars will have to start being made with integrated stabbing-posts - to fend off idiotic haters, by stabbing them in the eyes, while playing Hotel California. Fuck I love that tune. lol.
Hearts are in the right place. Brains are fused with anus' though. Douche-bags. So what? Now I have to get a stupid Carbon-Fiber guitar for travelling? Seriously, if some airport security dick took exception with one of my (new) wooden guitars. I'd probably smash it over their stupid face and spend a few decades in prison over it. I'm so tired of stupid people. The stupid, it burns!!
Ha haw ha hah ha ha har ha ha ha phhhh ha ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha ha ha hah lol ha ha heh ha ha ha ha heh ha ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha hahe haw ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haw ha ha har ha ha ha har ha hah ha ha ha! Cute little trolly-piggies, they so funny!!!;')
Actually, I'm mostly ripping on the Catholic church for their (fucking) moronic opinion/claim that contraceptions impede gods will... It's (mother?)fucking god, (s)he/it can pull whatever god-damned strings (s)he/it likes.. Crusading through Africa and South America, then throwing down that rule is like the most Nazi thing since no flash support on the iPhone. Or so I'm presently inclined to post on this here message board.
Another solution to the global food crisis is to stop having massive freakin steaming piles of babies. (*Gives various religious doctrines a condemning glare*).. Further developing the pwned world would probably go a long way too.. If everyone can afford an xbox, they'll be too busy getting killed playing Halo to go reproduce. AHh, forget it, let's just chow down on some shit-jerky and "go to town"..
I'm all for net neutrality and keeping things open and as free as possible..
But when it comes to users like my parents, jesus, is something like the new OS X App Store a sanity saver.
I think having App stores on the desktop is a great thing. But it only makes more newbs be able to use their computers. Of course the classic models will continue. Though this whole Cloud thing, particularly as Google's been working on, could really change things up.
Look, at the end of the day, we can all always fall back to Linux and that will never be a fail.
Well, I'm not at all surprised. I LOVE BSG. And I still think a show like Caprica could kick ass. I think the problem is that Caprica didn't get in to the real action of things.
They should spin off another series that takes place about 10 years later. Call it "Thirteen" (after the colonies) and have it be centered directly around the war with the Cylons before the cease-fire is signed.
It's just language.
The notion of a "bad" word is so fucking adolescent it makes me giggle with disappointment.
Why don't we have good words too? I propose "penis" be the official first "good word".
Or we could all just work on something tangible..
I seriously doubt we'll REALLY have anything sincerely resembling a synthetic human mind built within the next 500 years. The design problem still needs a lot more trail blazing and agreement from the most abstract leading edge of thought - from the philosophers. Once they bring down a solid definition, then, maybe work could begin.
All that said, I'm suggesting that Skynet wasn't really sentient, just a really really awesome set of Python scripts.
And I think we could build Skynet today. It'll probably be built around WinME, thus the source of its inherent hatred for humanity and all things considered sane.
I can appreciate the temptation to Apple, but alienating your users who are really trying to make the use of your platform is nothing short of completely fucking moronic. I feel so sorry for Apple's engineers. They make such wonderful everything, but their company policy continues to decay in to a festering mess of asinine sanity-phobia.
Apple, I beg you, remove your (and everyone else's) head from your massive festy asshole. My iphone is jailbroken and I've done nothing illegitimate on it. I installed SSH, iDroid, and some star trek sound effects. If that's REALLY something I need to be punished for doing, I'll even more happily switch to Android than I already am likely to do.
Frak SMD soldering directly (though nice)..
I wanna see the silicon of this licensed as a layer or whatever inside of an existing SoC, such as a beefy Samsung ARM Coretex based chip. Rad.
We could make such beautiful SoCs now.
(*gets disturbingly over-excited*)
I suppose this whole situation isn't surprising. People are afraid of change. But, really? Change doesn't have to involve ugly wars and violence as it has classically entailed. We have the power to move on and grow up to the next stage of realizing what democracy is. You know, or we can just sit tight and decay in to a festy mess of archaic social trash (if we haven't already).
Wikileaks seems like a major move towards actual openness. A supposedly democratic country ought to be ruled by the people. We created a system of representation back before the telegraph was functional because it wasn't practical for all the "owners" to be informed and react. Since the telegraph, well over 100 years ago, very very little progress has been made towards a democratic system that the current one is meant to provide. It's time that our citizens (who also make up our governments) recognize that the hacks we've used to make this work are training-wheels we can throw off. We have the means for our citizens to be easily involved with decisions and the first step towards that working at all, is those citizens need access to the information.
I appreciate the need to control certain military information, at least, in a short-term. However, Wikileaks is one of the most positive steps towards creating actual people-rule (democracy) since the establishment of the existing supposedly democratic constitutions we enjoy today. To attack them over this is nothing short of profoundly distasteful. It's like hanging the guy who put up a post-board for someone running up and slapping a blasphemous message on it.
To the Obama admin, please, reconsider what your doing. You're in office because the people have willed you there. They have a right to know what's going on, it's THEIR country (and same for the other democratic powers). If your military operations (the validity of which is a major other topic) really really really do require such secrecy, then it's up to you to keep that information private. If that information gets out, burning down the news paper factories isn't exactly confidence-inspiring PR. Actually, it makes the people feel like they're NOT in control. And.. well, there's a fair bit of history about what happens after awhile of that feeling - suffice to say, the 'power' you have is entrusted, not owned.
At the end of the day, we all are trying to make the world a better place. We just have a hard time agreeing about what that looks like. It's this nature that I think will ultimately lead us all to a more productive place. All the players mean well, through some kind of logic.
I personally think Wikileaks isn't the issue here at all. They deserve to be left alone AND they didn't do anything especially profound here. If they hadden't existed, there would have been many other places for this information to have been placed. Stop taking notes from China, Western culture will NOT be owned in that way.
Now... How do we move forward, towards a more stable WORLD? Let's start by shooting less and maybe talking a hell of a lot more.
Can't we all just be nice to eachother?? I feel like we're collectively a raging infant, can we grow up already? No?
.. just because I know how to use something "archaic" doesn't mean it's a good use of my time. There's a wide range of tools out there to do a given job. I'm interesting in identifying those that give me the features I'm interested in, in an well-thought out way. I dunno about you, but just because I learned on some classic instrumentation in school doesn't mean that I blindly accept that to be the best solution...
But really, I'm not sure who or to what you're speaking to...?
Fair enough - I was trying to keep my question as concise as possible, but yes, that is sort of a key component of the question..
I want to do low-voltage microcontroller stuff. Probably don't need to go over 100MHz, granted, I'd happily welcome scopes that can do 500MHz.
One project I have right now that I'd like to look at involves unamplified audio signals. Other similar projects involve watching USB traffic on the wire (reverse eng for a few small things) and working with digital video signals (HDMI/DVI-D).
I'm leaning towards one of the USB little boxes I can control via software - I'd prefer the classic experience, but it seems silly to power and pay for hardware that does stuff I can easily manage through a general purpose computer.
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I've never really loved Ribbon UIs, but only because of PEBKACs around me coming to me whining cause they're useless at looking at something right in front of them. Why switching Explorer to a Ribbon UI sounds like a good move to me is because they're using it in other flagship products that actually sort of require and benefit from that kind of workflow. While Explorer could probably get away with a less able UI, the droves of PEBKACs that roam the planet will whimper and annoy slightly less if Explorer as the same UI as they see in other places. Old school PEBKACs will whine regardless, but new ones will not reach their peak crying-volume, thanks to decisions like this. I may loathe most things Microsoft, but really, I think they made a call that makes the average sanity level just a little better than if they'd done anything else. Now, if the MS Office team decides to make a totally new UI shortly after this, that'll be like the best self-trolling since Chris Crocker.
Maybe this just means guitars will have to start being made with integrated stabbing-posts - to fend off idiotic haters, by stabbing them in the eyes, while playing Hotel California. Fuck I love that tune. lol.
Hearts are in the right place. Brains are fused with anus' though. Douche-bags. So what? Now I have to get a stupid Carbon-Fiber guitar for travelling? Seriously, if some airport security dick took exception with one of my (new) wooden guitars. I'd probably smash it over their stupid face and spend a few decades in prison over it. I'm so tired of stupid people. The stupid, it burns!!
Ha haw ha hah ha ha har ha ha ha phhhh ha ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha ha ha hah lol ha ha heh ha ha ha ha heh ha ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha hahe haw ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haw ha ha har ha ha ha har ha hah ha ha ha! Cute little trolly-piggies, they so funny!!! ;')
I'm sorry to hear that Timmy. Maybe next time you'll know to ninja-kick all the other kids to the ground and make them eat soiled underpants.
Actually, I'm mostly ripping on the Catholic church for their (fucking) moronic opinion/claim that contraceptions impede gods will... It's (mother?)fucking god, (s)he/it can pull whatever god-damned strings (s)he/it likes.. Crusading through Africa and South America, then throwing down that rule is like the most Nazi thing since no flash support on the iPhone. Or so I'm presently inclined to post on this here message board.
Especially if the "breath mints" are "derived from" rabbit turds.
It was inevitable. (*sheds a tear*)
I'm keen to travel in space, but I won't go if I can't bring a space-farm-ranch along with me... Run by slightly murderous robots, of course.
The breath mint industry probably paid for this research.
Another solution to the global food crisis is to stop having massive freakin steaming piles of babies. (*Gives various religious doctrines a condemning glare*).. Further developing the pwned world would probably go a long way too.. If everyone can afford an xbox, they'll be too busy getting killed playing Halo to go reproduce. AHh, forget it, let's just chow down on some shit-jerky and "go to town"..
So say we all?
I'm all for net neutrality and keeping things open and as free as possible..
But when it comes to users like my parents, jesus, is something like the new OS X App Store a sanity saver.
I think having App stores on the desktop is a great thing. But it only makes more newbs be able to use their computers. Of course the classic models will continue. Though this whole Cloud thing, particularly as Google's been working on, could really change things up.
Look, at the end of the day, we can all always fall back to Linux and that will never be a fail.
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Well, I'm not at all surprised. I LOVE BSG. And I still think a show like Caprica could kick ass. I think the problem is that Caprica didn't get in to the real action of things.
They should spin off another series that takes place about 10 years later. Call it "Thirteen" (after the colonies) and have it be centered directly around the war with the Cylons before the cease-fire is signed.
It's just language. The notion of a "bad" word is so fucking adolescent it makes me giggle with disappointment. Why don't we have good words too? I propose "penis" be the official first "good word". Or we could all just work on something tangible..
"addiction" and "starcraft 2" are only used in the same sentence by newbs covered in pwnsauce.
PS - "Patching" social problems with drugs is about as hilarious as producing a single baby "faster" by assigning more Women to the task.
I seriously doubt we'll REALLY have anything sincerely resembling a synthetic human mind built within the next 500 years. The design problem still needs a lot more trail blazing and agreement from the most abstract leading edge of thought - from the philosophers. Once they bring down a solid definition, then, maybe work could begin.
All that said, I'm suggesting that Skynet wasn't really sentient, just a really really awesome set of Python scripts.
And I think we could build Skynet today. It'll probably be built around WinME, thus the source of its inherent hatred for humanity and all things considered sane.
I can appreciate the temptation to Apple, but alienating your users who are really trying to make the use of your platform is nothing short of completely fucking moronic. I feel so sorry for Apple's engineers. They make such wonderful everything, but their company policy continues to decay in to a festering mess of asinine sanity-phobia.
Apple, I beg you, remove your (and everyone else's) head from your massive festy asshole. My iphone is jailbroken and I've done nothing illegitimate on it. I installed SSH, iDroid, and some star trek sound effects. If that's REALLY something I need to be punished for doing, I'll even more happily switch to Android than I already am likely to do.
Frak SMD soldering directly (though nice)..
I wanna see the silicon of this licensed as a layer or whatever inside of an existing SoC, such as a beefy Samsung ARM Coretex based chip. Rad.
We could make such beautiful SoCs now.
(*gets disturbingly over-excited*)
I suppose this whole situation isn't surprising. People are afraid of change. But, really? Change doesn't have to involve ugly wars and violence as it has classically entailed. We have the power to move on and grow up to the next stage of realizing what democracy is. You know, or we can just sit tight and decay in to a festy mess of archaic social trash (if we haven't already).
Wikileaks seems like a major move towards actual openness. A supposedly democratic country ought to be ruled by the people. We created a system of representation back before the telegraph was functional because it wasn't practical for all the "owners" to be informed and react. Since the telegraph, well over 100 years ago, very very little progress has been made towards a democratic system that the current one is meant to provide. It's time that our citizens (who also make up our governments) recognize that the hacks we've used to make this work are training-wheels we can throw off. We have the means for our citizens to be easily involved with decisions and the first step towards that working at all, is those citizens need access to the information.
I appreciate the need to control certain military information, at least, in a short-term. However, Wikileaks is one of the most positive steps towards creating actual people-rule (democracy) since the establishment of the existing supposedly democratic constitutions we enjoy today. To attack them over this is nothing short of profoundly distasteful. It's like hanging the guy who put up a post-board for someone running up and slapping a blasphemous message on it.
To the Obama admin, please, reconsider what your doing. You're in office because the people have willed you there. They have a right to know what's going on, it's THEIR country (and same for the other democratic powers). If your military operations (the validity of which is a major other topic) really really really do require such secrecy, then it's up to you to keep that information private. If that information gets out, burning down the news paper factories isn't exactly confidence-inspiring PR. Actually, it makes the people feel like they're NOT in control. And.. well, there's a fair bit of history about what happens after awhile of that feeling - suffice to say, the 'power' you have is entrusted, not owned.
At the end of the day, we all are trying to make the world a better place. We just have a hard time agreeing about what that looks like. It's this nature that I think will ultimately lead us all to a more productive place. All the players mean well, through some kind of logic.
I personally think Wikileaks isn't the issue here at all. They deserve to be left alone AND they didn't do anything especially profound here. If they hadden't existed, there would have been many other places for this information to have been placed. Stop taking notes from China, Western culture will NOT be owned in that way.
Now... How do we move forward, towards a more stable WORLD? Let's start by shooting less and maybe talking a hell of a lot more.
Can't we all just be nice to eachother?? I feel like we're collectively a raging infant, can we grow up already? No?
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.. just because I know how to use something "archaic" doesn't mean it's a good use of my time. There's a wide range of tools out there to do a given job. I'm interesting in identifying those that give me the features I'm interested in, in an well-thought out way. I dunno about you, but just because I learned on some classic instrumentation in school doesn't mean that I blindly accept that to be the best solution...
But really, I'm not sure who or to what you're speaking to...?
Who said anything about being too hard to use?
Fair enough - I was trying to keep my question as concise as possible, but yes, that is sort of a key component of the question..
I want to do low-voltage microcontroller stuff. Probably don't need to go over 100MHz, granted, I'd happily welcome scopes that can do 500MHz.
One project I have right now that I'd like to look at involves unamplified audio signals. Other similar projects involve watching USB traffic on the wire (reverse eng for a few small things) and working with digital video signals (HDMI/DVI-D).
I'm leaning towards one of the USB little boxes I can control via software - I'd prefer the classic experience, but it seems silly to power and pay for hardware that does stuff I can easily manage through a general purpose computer.
Proprietary connectors are NOT "clever", they're generally asinine and should be considered criminal unless a DAMNED fine case can be made each time.