Tracking all the airplanes on the planet, while precisely firing every missle ever manufactured and brewing the perfect espresso is nowhere near as phenominal of an accomplishment as claiming you've identified the exact cause of a 0.6 degree average warming over the entire planet over a 100 year period.
Regardless, I said was skeptical.. and I think I provided a valid reason to be. Of course I'm not an expert in this field... but that doesn't mean I have to take everything self-proclaimed experts say as gospel. If history shows us anything it shows an astonishing and consistent track record of smart people (for the day) getting shit dead wrong. Generation after generation then, instead of finding humility in this, smuggly assumes intellectual dominion over those that came before them. I see no reason to assume we've grown out of this hubris at all.
Ultimately I may be ignorant... but the mere assertion that there's 'consensus' is not enough for me to get on board. I'm sorry if that offends you.
A much bigger problem is that western economies, having their medium exchange controlled privately, rely on perpetual (and infinite) economic growth to avoid deflation.
The second more important issue is that the west is continually building their economy to rely on an infinite (and cheap) supply of oil when it's quite clearly a finite commodity.
Fix these two world collapsing issues first.. and then worry about whether the planet's getting a little bit warmer or not.
It's pretty much the same thing. Just as a car is largely useless without a steering wheel, a computer is useless without an OS.
Likewise, if I prefer a different model (after market) steering wheel I wouldn't expect to be able to return the one that came with the car... that would be ridiculous.
The bottom line is don't buy from hardware manufacturers that pre-bundle software you don't support.
Perhaps the real problem is that there's not enough choices when it comes to buying a computer. In that case draconian legislation like this is merely a bandaid solution.
Exactly. You don't expect to buy a car and return the steering wheel do you?
Don't support hardware manufacturers that partner with software you oppose. Instead of crying for more legislation so you don't have to make any decisions do us all a favor and help the market open up to more competition. Vote with your dollar... not with your lawyer.
Your whole rant is irrelevant. When pirates are offering a better more convenient product, people are going to pirate. This is cause and effect and you will not stop it with any amount of draconian measures.
The entertainment industry needs to evolve or die. Period. It's not even an argument.
I live in Calgary Alberta and I have a 100/5 connection which I think is pretty good at least compared to some values I've heard from friends that live in the US.
To be sure... I also pay $85 a month for the privilege.
As far as I can recall my 9900 doesn't try to "smart format" the page at all. It will zoom the page out and is readable horizontally on the screen up to about a 900-1000 pixel horizontal resolution. Occassionally websites demand they display in a minimum width of greater than this which can cause alot of annoying side scrolling, but I blame this entirely on those site's developers for not having a mobile version under those circumstances.
It's a standard webkit based HTML5 browser since OS6 which puts it exactly on par with safari. When BB10 releases the browser will also support flash and, perhaps, (don't quote me) java.
I'm not sure why it's status quo now to snidely disparage blackberry. Being in IT I've had experience using every droid on the market as well as the flashy new siri and I still prefer my 9900 over them all. I'll take an actual keyboard and the convenience of BES over an angry birds app any day.
I don't see why the issue of man caused global warming receives so much attention. A much more pressing issue for humanity is the sustainability (or lack there of) of an oil-based global economy that relies on infinite growth. Man caused global warming, whether or not it's actually real, is one mere symptom of this larger issue.
Whether or not humans are effecting climate change does not matter. As long as an oil based economy gives one country a better standard of living than the other it will continue. This is the tragedy of the commons. The only way to stop this trend is to invent another form of energy that comes cheaper than extracting and refining fossil fuels. THAT is the inconvenient truth.
It always amazes me that people call the manufacturer of their computer's when they break and expect some miracle remote fix.
Do you call toyota when your check engine light comes on? Probably not.
If your computer breaks and you don't know how to fix it... take it to someone who does.
I'd have to disagree. My advice isnt going to be popular but it's this:
Choose a different profession.
Self-taught "web developers" are a dime a dozen these days and about 11 of that dozen have no idea what theyre doing.
This creates two problems for you:
1) companies find it hard to weed through all the crap developers without filtering by credentials, and
2) it's a low paying, high turnover, rat race of a position
If you're a true geek get certified in something IT related. Networking, sysadmin, and managed service support are all good choices. There's plenty of cheap avenues to become accredited with specific vendors (ie. Cisco, or Microsoft) where associate degrees can be obtained within only a few months.
Your only other option if youre committed to software development is to get a BSc and start working on real development (not shitty websites for small businesses). Which, as I'm sure you know, is very expensive and time consuming.
I already route 'certain protocols' of traffic over a persistent 10Mbit/sec OpenVPN tunnel to an Anonymous service in sweden. It's not terribly difficult to setup for someone with even an associate level understanding of networking.
The most they can hope for is pushing pirating back to the geek underground.
The whole 'cloud' services movement is simply a paradigm shift back to mainframe computing (although the mainframe is distributed over very large WAN's instead of LAN's). It likely won't cost jobs, simply move them around. Obscenely complicated routing infrastructure and massive data farms containing hundreds of server clusters don't design, build, maintain, and upgrade themselves... at least not yet.
Update: tried to uninstall from 'Program's and Features': failed said was still running.
Doesnt run as a Windows service, no discernible process name in task manager. Has to actually be stopped using an administrator command prompt and running the 'stopyacy.bat' file in the programs install directory.
Not to mention our complete dependence on earth's animals, microbial life, tidal fluxes, and atmospheric composition.
The more we learn about what makes the earth the earth and exactly how dependent we are on every little detail of it pushes back both the chances of another planet like it existing within reasonable range and the plausibility of extra terrestrial colonization at all.
Steven seems to be losing his grip on reality these days. Space colonization for humans still has centuries, possibly millenia, of technological hurdles to overcome. Humanity needs to worry about getting back to true symbiosis with our planet before entertaining these wild ideas.
I open the command line in Windows daily. The fact that youre not even sure if 'it still exists' kind of makes your whole rant uninformed and irrelevant.
This is further evidenced by your comment: 'Extensive hardware and driver support. The current state is not good enough.'.
If some hardware youre trying to use doesn't work in Linux it's because the manufacturers of said hardware have not supported it's operation in Linux.
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I think someone forgot to take their medication.
You can read 'the west' as 'western economic ideals' if that pleases you better.
Tracking all the airplanes on the planet, while precisely firing every missle ever manufactured and brewing the perfect espresso is nowhere near as phenominal of an accomplishment as claiming you've identified the exact cause of a 0.6 degree average warming over the entire planet over a 100 year period.
Regardless, I said was skeptical.. and I think I provided a valid reason to be. Of course I'm not an expert in this field... but that doesn't mean I have to take everything self-proclaimed experts say as gospel. If history shows us anything it shows an astonishing and consistent track record of smart people (for the day) getting shit dead wrong. Generation after generation then, instead of finding humility in this, smuggly assumes intellectual dominion over those that came before them. I see no reason to assume we've grown out of this hubris at all.
Ultimately I may be ignorant... but the mere assertion that there's 'consensus' is not enough for me to get on board. I'm sorry if that offends you.
A much bigger problem is that western economies, having their medium exchange controlled privately, rely on perpetual (and infinite) economic growth to avoid deflation.
The second more important issue is that the west is continually building their economy to rely on an infinite (and cheap) supply of oil when it's quite clearly a finite commodity.
Fix these two world collapsing issues first.. and then worry about whether the planet's getting a little bit warmer or not.
All it took for me was learning that all their predictions are based on computer models. That alone made me extremely skeptical.
There is NO way some group of people have figured out all of the variables and equations that affect global climate. Garbarge in, garbage out.
It's pretty much the same thing. Just as a car is largely useless without a steering wheel, a computer is useless without an OS.
Likewise, if I prefer a different model (after market) steering wheel I wouldn't expect to be able to return the one that came with the car... that would be ridiculous.
The bottom line is don't buy from hardware manufacturers that pre-bundle software you don't support.
Perhaps the real problem is that there's not enough choices when it comes to buying a computer. In that case draconian legislation like this is merely a bandaid solution.
or does google really seem to lack focus?
How is it possibly considered a good business model to keep shotguning the market with these half assed plagerized products.
FOCUS google! FOCUS! You were supposed to take down facebook!
Exactly. You don't expect to buy a car and return the steering wheel do you?
Don't support hardware manufacturers that partner with software you oppose. Instead of crying for more legislation so you don't have to make any decisions do us all a favor and help the market open up to more competition. Vote with your dollar... not with your lawyer.
Your whole rant is irrelevant. When pirates are offering a better more convenient product, people are going to pirate. This is cause and effect and you will not stop it with any amount of draconian measures.
The entertainment industry needs to evolve or die. Period. It's not even an argument.
I live in Calgary Alberta and I have a 100/5 connection which I think is pretty good at least compared to some values I've heard from friends that live in the US.
To be sure... I also pay $85 a month for the privilege.
As far as I can recall my 9900 doesn't try to "smart format" the page at all. It will zoom the page out and is readable horizontally on the screen up to about a 900-1000 pixel horizontal resolution. Occassionally websites demand they display in a minimum width of greater than this which can cause alot of annoying side scrolling, but I blame this entirely on those site's developers for not having a mobile version under those circumstances.
It's a standard webkit based HTML5 browser since OS6 which puts it exactly on par with safari. When BB10 releases the browser will also support flash and, perhaps, (don't quote me) java.
I'm not sure why it's status quo now to snidely disparage blackberry. Being in IT I've had experience using every droid on the market as well as the flashy new siri and I still prefer my 9900 over them all. I'll take an actual keyboard and the convenience of BES over an angry birds app any day.
I don't see why the issue of man caused global warming receives so much attention. A much more pressing issue for humanity is the sustainability (or lack there of) of an oil-based global economy that relies on infinite growth. Man caused global warming, whether or not it's actually real, is one mere symptom of this larger issue.
Whether or not humans are effecting climate change does not matter. As long as an oil based economy gives one country a better standard of living than the other it will continue. This is the tragedy of the commons. The only way to stop this trend is to invent another form of energy that comes cheaper than extracting and refining fossil fuels. THAT is the inconvenient truth.
It always amazes me that people call the manufacturer of their computer's when they break and expect some miracle remote fix.
Do you call toyota when your check engine light comes on? Probably not.
If your computer breaks and you don't know how to fix it... take it to someone who does.
So you're saying tightly controlled walled gardens are a good thing because people are too stupid to handle freedom with their electronics?
I find this line of thinking both insulting and dangerous and I sure hope you never get in to politics.
I'd have to disagree. My advice isnt going to be popular but it's this:
Choose a different profession.
Self-taught "web developers" are a dime a dozen these days and about 11 of that dozen have no idea what theyre doing.
This creates two problems for you:
1) companies find it hard to weed through all the crap developers without filtering by credentials, and
2) it's a low paying, high turnover, rat race of a position
If you're a true geek get certified in something IT related. Networking, sysadmin, and managed service support are all good choices. There's plenty of cheap avenues to become accredited with specific vendors (ie. Cisco, or Microsoft) where associate degrees can be obtained within only a few months.
Your only other option if youre committed to software development is to get a BSc and start working on real development (not shitty websites for small businesses). Which, as I'm sure you know, is very expensive and time consuming.
This.
I already route 'certain protocols' of traffic over a persistent 10Mbit/sec OpenVPN tunnel to an Anonymous service in sweden. It's not terribly difficult to setup for someone with even an associate level understanding of networking.
The most they can hope for is pushing pirating back to the geek underground.
Gimp is about the same price as downloading Photoshop from the pirate bay.
The whole 'cloud' services movement is simply a paradigm shift back to mainframe computing (although the mainframe is distributed over very large WAN's instead of LAN's). It likely won't cost jobs, simply move them around. Obscenely complicated routing infrastructure and massive data farms containing hundreds of server clusters don't design, build, maintain, and upgrade themselves... at least not yet.
Update: tried to uninstall from 'Program's and Features': failed said was still running.
Doesnt run as a Windows service, no discernible process name in task manager. Has to actually be stopped using an administrator command prompt and running the 'stopyacy.bat' file in the programs install directory.
This software is junk.
My first test was 'slashdot'. Several results.. mostly blogs referencing various articles. The actual site wasn't even on the first page.
Second try: 'cisco ios cli reference' seemed to generate a pile of results and completely froze the service.
Even if it worked well its much slower than google to give results and about 10,000 times the bandwidth overhead.
Not to mention our complete dependence on earth's animals, microbial life, tidal fluxes, and atmospheric composition.
The more we learn about what makes the earth the earth and exactly how dependent we are on every little detail of it pushes back both the chances of another planet like it existing within reasonable range and the plausibility of extra terrestrial colonization at all.
Steven seems to be losing his grip on reality these days. Space colonization for humans still has centuries, possibly millenia, of technological hurdles to overcome. Humanity needs to worry about getting back to true symbiosis with our planet before entertaining these wild ideas.
I open the command line in Windows daily. The fact that youre not even sure if 'it still exists' kind of makes your whole rant uninformed and irrelevant.
This is further evidenced by your comment: 'Extensive hardware and driver support. The current state is not good enough.'.
If some hardware youre trying to use doesn't work in Linux it's because the manufacturers of said hardware have not supported it's operation in Linux.
Umm.... Mint IS basically Ubuntu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint
Their main branch is entirely based on Ubuntu. They do have a debian version of Mint but I'd doubt that's as popular.