How about James Joyce retelling the Odyssey in Ulysses?
Now, you had me up to that point, but Joyce was a talentless self-absorbed hack wanker. Comparing his sorry drivel to Homer is a rank insult to the blind genius.
How does the shorter battery life make this defective?
OHH! That is such a dumb question! How does something draining your battery for no reason make it defective? How does something not working correctly make it defective? How does reducing the utility of your laptop mean that there's a defect? Jeez. I dunno!
I find Chinese rules to be both restrictive and rigged to favor people in the government or their relatives/friends who just happen to benefit from their official decrees. Fine. Those are the rules. You learn to work within them.
"The people I deal with are corrupt. I don't care."
The average Chinese person on the street knows good and well that most things they are fed through the official media are censored.
"People are oppressed and they know they're oppressed."
They said they'd rather have some information from outside than none at all.
"The oppressed people are desperate."
I agree wholeheartedly that the only way to dislodge the broken/corrupt government in China is to help create a middle class.
"The middle classes are well known for their revolutionary tendencies because they have more to loose through change...er"
I fully expect China to emerge a stronger and likely much more democratic country.
"I keep telling myself and anyone that listens that it's not my fault."
My only hope is that we don't wind up with another "let's dig in our heels" Tiananmen Square confrontation before the geezers throw in the towel.
"Some more people might get killed before this is over but they're not going to be me so I don't care."
However, the MS tax (like all taxes designed by the rich) falls disproportionately on small businesses and home users who don't get bulk discounts. Same with OEMs.
And since Gates uses the distribution of this money to increase his public standing and therefore make it harder for governments to prevent him using illegal an immoral tactics to take more money off those same small business and home users, I would argue that he's not doing either the right thing nor for the right reasons. Basically, he's just another sinner trying to buy his way into heaven (figuratively speaking).
Of course the money he's giving to TB, AIDS and malaria etc is doing good for the people at the front line who are dying but statistics suggest that more of that money would have gone to those causes if it had stayed with the original "small" people, who tend to give more of their income to charity than super-rich ego-trippers.
I don't see you ripping on lets say home depot for putting small little hardware stores out of business or walmart for opening super walmarts and putting ma and pa grocery stores out of business.
That's because those examples are not really what/. is about. There is an Asda (owned by Walmart) about 200yards from my house but I don't use it for the reason you gave. I use the local shops which sell better produce at lower prices; but I do have to do more walking.
Spreading about money you stole is no big deal in my book. Perhaps the OEMs and other small business people Gates has strong-armed into paying the Microsoft Tax would have given more money to the sick and needy. In fact, as a proportion of their whole income, they probably would have.
Other than being within a few dozen feet of an enormous explosion,
There are explosions and then there are explosions. Gas explosions tend to be much slower than "professional" explosives even when they generate the same total force. People caught in gas explosions are often killed by the collapsing buildings rather than the explosion itself. It's a bit like the difference between being pushed over by a walking rhino and being hit by the same rhino charging you.
The number of people who did observe this, numbers in the high hundreds of thousands at least; that hardly qualifies as few,
Compare with the number of people who remember it, that is very few indeed.
a quick look on Wiktionary shows it to have as one common meaning to destroy violently or abruptly which is certainly what happened to the shuttle.
Which shows why Wiktionary is a pile of junk like Wikipedia. That description could applied to a car hitting a wall at 100mph, or me stamping on a can. The shuttle did not explode, the external fuel tank did but with very little force. The shuttle was mostly destroyed by aerodynamic stress caused by this event. In either case the shuttle was destroyed from without, as opposed to an explostion which is an internal event ("expand suddenly with a loud noise owning to a release of internal energy" - Concise OED, a real dictionary).
Most people would find little discrepancy between a person being subjected to violent trauma, going unconscious or into extreme shock, and dying within a minute and dying instantly.
Almost three minutes is not instantly and, as was pointed out, there is some evidence that people were moving inside the cabin at least enough to activate some emergency equipment. The shuttle cabin was not destroyed by either the fuel tank explosion or the disintegration of the shuttle body and in fact the only reason the crew may not have been conscious is the de-compression idea which itself is unproved. There is no reason to believe that the crew were subjected to violent trauma which put them into extreme shock; that's just a figment of your imagination. NASA have been quiet about this point but in fact at the time of recovering the wreckage they did say that they thought some of the crew had been conscious when the cabin hit the water.
Any rational person would recognise the inherent danger in strapping themselves to the side of an enormous tank of liquid oxygen and lighting it.
And any rational person would recognise that the word "especially" in this context denoted relative danger rather than some absolute scale.
surely this is the wrong word to use for a part that has been proven by more than one panel of highly respected scientists to be inherently flawed.
Read the article again; he's not talking here about the O-ring that failed.
This is simply delusional, and requires no further comment
Wrong on both counts.
It is difficult to know where to start with this statement.
Well, since you clearly agree that the disaster was avoidable, as does the author, I would have thought a good place would have been to say "yes, that's right".
Look at the tasks that MacWorld tested. They're all real things that real people do all the time. Sure, I could write a Towers of Hanoi program in assembler (I have one here I wrote in Forth, if that's any help) which would "max out" the processor useage and run lots faster on the new machines. But who cares?
In the real world computing tasks are dependant on the system, not just the CPU, and a computer that is 9% SLOWER at exporting an image while resizing is NOT going to deliver Job's promise.
Spare CPU capacity is neither here nor there; the user's experience is the time from clicking "go" or whatever to seeing the little timer/bouncing ball turn back to a regular arrow. Because users can't task-switch every 300ns; they click and wait most of the time.
So, MacSpeed's figures are probably correct but totally academic for most users, and MacWorld's figures are probably well short of the machine's capacity but a much better indication of the user's experience.
Crop Circles and UFO's aren't swamp gas and jokers with planks, as anybody knows who has properly examined the subjects.
I don't know about UFO's but crop circles are 100% jokers with planks, laptops and GPS systems. Of course, when I was a kid they were just jokers with planks but then the circles they made were much simpler too.
I could go into great detail about why Evolutionary theory is full of bunk. But I'd only get flamed.
Probably because you'd be wrong. Evolution is one of the best tested and well-founded scientific ideas in history. It may not be finished but it's a long long way from being "spotty".
It is my hope that science may soon change fundamentally what is means to be human through genetics.
Yes, because the people who brought us depleted uranium weapons and agent orange are just so concerned with the positive appliances of science!
That's from Paul's section of the Bible. Paul was a total bastard of a thug who mangled Jesus' message into a self-serving load of misanthropic crap which lead inevitably to the Inquisition. Nothing in the Bible which originates from that shit is of any value.
Is it because your 'scientific' mind tells you that nothing can exist before the beginning of time?
No, it's because when some idiot tells us that there's a GIANT magic pixie somewhere that sees everything, knows everything and created everything but can't produce any evidence at all to back it up, we tend to think "loonie" rather than "visionary". Which seems fine to me.
Remember: "faith" is just another word for "superstition".
A "secular" country with an official state religion.
You know, I don't know if it IS an official state religion. It might be in England and Scotland, but I'm sure it's not in Northern Ireland and probably not in Wales.
The Queen being head of the church and head of state doesn't have to mean that the state is "officially" that religion.
It is illegal to require any particular religion as a prerequisite for a job in or out side of government, which would seem hard to square with having a state religion.
No one in their right mind would spend 7 billion dollars on a brand.
The last 15 or 20 years has shown that the only thing Disney knows or cares about is branding, and they've made a fortune at it. Creatively, however, they've not been even close to their right minds.
Disney is a supertanker of a company and it'll take more than a seat on the board or even being nominally in charge of animation to turn it around from the pile of crap it has become. Pixar is dead, for all serious purposes, although I'm sure Disney will make a big deal out of exploiting its "brand" on more of its third-rate tat.
Wonder what kind of excuses they would make up to still deny the existance of God.
I don't think anyone needs to make up excuses to deny the existance of gods, I think it's up to the people who do believe in them to come up with reasons to do so. So far, they haven't.
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Now, you had me up to that point, but Joyce was a talentless self-absorbed hack wanker. Comparing his sorry drivel to Homer is a rank insult to the blind genius.
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It bloody well is for their family. "Oh, daddy got killed at work today. Oh, well - he knew the risks. What's on MTV?" I don't think so.
To say nothing of your assertion that a work of fiction is more of a tragedy than real people dying.
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OHH! That is such a dumb question! How does something draining your battery for no reason make it defective? How does something not working correctly make it defective? How does reducing the utility of your laptop mean that there's a defect? Jeez. I dunno!
You TWAT!
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"The people I deal with are corrupt. I don't care."
The average Chinese person on the street knows good and well that most things they are fed through the official media are censored.
"People are oppressed and they know they're oppressed."
They said they'd rather have some information from outside than none at all.
"The oppressed people are desperate."
I agree wholeheartedly that the only way to dislodge the broken/corrupt government in China is to help create a middle class.
"The middle classes are well known for their revolutionary tendencies because they have more to loose through change...er"
I fully expect China to emerge a stronger and likely much more democratic country.
"I keep telling myself and anyone that listens that it's not my fault."
My only hope is that we don't wind up with another "let's dig in our heels" Tiananmen Square confrontation before the geezers throw in the towel.
"Some more people might get killed before this is over but they're not going to be me so I don't care."
TWW
And since Gates uses the distribution of this money to increase his public standing and therefore make it harder for governments to prevent him using illegal an immoral tactics to take more money off those same small business and home users, I would argue that he's not doing either the right thing nor for the right reasons. Basically, he's just another sinner trying to buy his way into heaven (figuratively speaking).
Of course the money he's giving to TB, AIDS and malaria etc is doing good for the people at the front line who are dying but statistics suggest that more of that money would have gone to those causes if it had stayed with the original "small" people, who tend to give more of their income to charity than super-rich ego-trippers.
TWW
That's because those examples are not really what /. is about. There is an Asda (owned by Walmart) about 200yards from my house but I don't use it for the reason you gave. I use the local shops which sell better produce at lower prices; but I do have to do more walking.
TWW
They don't so much spread it about concentrate it into the pockets of politicians and their friends and families.
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There are explosions and then there are explosions. Gas explosions tend to be much slower than "professional" explosives even when they generate the same total force. People caught in gas explosions are often killed by the collapsing buildings rather than the explosion itself. It's a bit like the difference between being pushed over by a walking rhino and being hit by the same rhino charging you.
TWW
Compare with the number of people who remember it, that is very few indeed.
a quick look on Wiktionary shows it to have as one common meaning to destroy violently or abruptly which is certainly what happened to the shuttle.
Which shows why Wiktionary is a pile of junk like Wikipedia. That description could applied to a car hitting a wall at 100mph, or me stamping on a can. The shuttle did not explode, the external fuel tank did but with very little force. The shuttle was mostly destroyed by aerodynamic stress caused by this event. In either case the shuttle was destroyed from without, as opposed to an explostion which is an internal event ("expand suddenly with a loud noise owning to a release of internal energy" - Concise OED, a real dictionary).
Most people would find little discrepancy between a person being subjected to violent trauma, going unconscious or into extreme shock, and dying within a minute and dying instantly.
Almost three minutes is not instantly and, as was pointed out, there is some evidence that people were moving inside the cabin at least enough to activate some emergency equipment. The shuttle cabin was not destroyed by either the fuel tank explosion or the disintegration of the shuttle body and in fact the only reason the crew may not have been conscious is the de-compression idea which itself is unproved. There is no reason to believe that the crew were subjected to violent trauma which put them into extreme shock; that's just a figment of your imagination. NASA have been quiet about this point but in fact at the time of recovering the wreckage they did say that they thought some of the crew had been conscious when the cabin hit the water.
Any rational person would recognise the inherent danger in strapping themselves to the side of an enormous tank of liquid oxygen and lighting it.
And any rational person would recognise that the word "especially" in this context denoted relative danger rather than some absolute scale.
surely this is the wrong word to use for a part that has been proven by more than one panel of highly respected scientists to be inherently flawed.
Read the article again; he's not talking here about the O-ring that failed.
This is simply delusional, and requires no further comment
Wrong on both counts.
It is difficult to know where to start with this statement.
Well, since you clearly agree that the disaster was avoidable, as does the author, I would have thought a good place would have been to say "yes, that's right".
Well done. Worst post I've read so far this year.
TWW
In the real world computing tasks are dependant on the system, not just the CPU, and a computer that is 9% SLOWER at exporting an image while resizing is NOT going to deliver Job's promise.
Spare CPU capacity is neither here nor there; the user's experience is the time from clicking "go" or whatever to seeing the little timer/bouncing ball turn back to a regular arrow. Because users can't task-switch every 300ns; they click and wait most of the time.
So, MacSpeed's figures are probably correct but totally academic for most users, and MacWorld's figures are probably well short of the machine's capacity but a much better indication of the user's experience.
TWW
I don't know about UFO's but crop circles are 100% jokers with planks, laptops and GPS systems. Of course, when I was a kid they were just jokers with planks but then the circles they made were much simpler too.
TWW
Probably because you'd be wrong. Evolution is one of the best tested and well-founded scientific ideas in history. It may not be finished but it's a long long way from being "spotty".
It is my hope that science may soon change fundamentally what is means to be human through genetics.
Yes, because the people who brought us depleted uranium weapons and agent orange are just so concerned with the positive appliances of science!
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No, it's because when some idiot tells us that there's a GIANT magic pixie somewhere that sees everything, knows everything and created everything but can't produce any evidence at all to back it up, we tend to think "loonie" rather than "visionary". Which seems fine to me.
Remember: "faith" is just another word for "superstition".
TWW
You know, I don't know if it IS an official state religion. It might be in England and Scotland, but I'm sure it's not in Northern Ireland and probably not in Wales.
The Queen being head of the church and head of state doesn't have to mean that the state is "officially" that religion.
It is illegal to require any particular religion as a prerequisite for a job in or out side of government, which would seem hard to square with having a state religion.
TWW
Bloody hell! First the boils, then the post of CEO of Disney. Poor old Job's having a bad time. Still, better than Jonah. Marginally.
TWW
Jeez, why would you do that to your kids? Were they a disappointment or something?
TWW
The last 15 or 20 years has shown that the only thing Disney knows or cares about is branding, and they've made a fortune at it. Creatively, however, they've not been even close to their right minds.
TWW
Yes, well, that's true, but at the same time that's how the atomic and quantum theories got started too.
TWW
And Microsoft is well known for its lean, tightly designed packages?
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Because then people would stop paying attention to them and they'd have to grow up.
Glad to help.
TWW
I don't think anyone needs to make up excuses to deny the existance of gods, I think it's up to the people who do believe in them to come up with reasons to do so. So far, they haven't.
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