Personally, I put it down to the Boomers deciding that Rules Are Bad(tm). Yes, the powerful can manipulate the rules to their own ends. Yes, rules sometimes prevent you from doing what you want. But sometimes, rules are all that prevent the powerful from simply taking everything they want. Sometimes, rules are the only thing preventing a person from acting like a self-centered asshole. Rules are necessary; they just need to be *good* rules.
It would be interesting to hear from TFA what on the Internet does not count as "the cloud" ?
Absolutely nothing. "The Cloud" is the in, new buzzword, and thus Marketing is making sure that whatever they're selling, it's part of The Cloud. Coming your way, Cloud-enabled galoshes! You can order them over the Internet!
Call of Duty: Psychology? Dude, when then did that come out? Imagine, gunning down the bad guys *and* rooting out their deep-seated anxieties! (Which are mainly about you gunning them down, but whatcha gonna do?)
$145 million GDP and a population of 4.4 million means an annual income per capita of $33. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the world's poorest nation, has a figure more than ten times that. I think he meant to say $145 *billion* GDP. I believe he may be from New Zealand; I can't make the figures match up precisely, but it's close. He may have difference sources.
The amount of heat produced directly by all human activity combined is tiny compared to the heat applied by the sunlight the earth receives. The contribution of all human direct heat production is so small that no large-scale analysis of global heat retention even bothers to include it. Global warming is effectively entirely the result of increasing CO2, which increases the amount of incoming solar heat the Earth retains. Removing significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere would relieve global warming regardless of how much direct heat the process generated.
Um, you do realize that no human activity *creates* carbon, right? It just moves it around; in the case of global warming, we're moving it from in the ground (where it's not a problem) to in the atmosphere (where it is a problem). This moves the carbon back into the ground. How does that not work?
If you're "rationally paranoid" at all, you don't keep most of your money in the bank anymore anyway.
And keep it...where, exactly? Under your mattress? That's not precisely a high-security solution. In this world of toil and sin, an FDIC-guaranteed savings account is about as safe as it gets.
How is anything "in your way" at all? The elements unique to Windows 8 are only visible when invoked called by you, the user. When on the desktop, there is nothing metro in your way at all.
Look, I know you draw a MS paycheck, but give it up. It's not pinin', it's passed on! It's bleedin' demised!
Some of us, however, are capable of planning ahead. I notice you said "restore from a backup." Note that this is not for backing up and restoring data you need to have available on a live basis. This is for truly *archive* data--data you don't need on a day-to-day basis but might need to retrieve in special cases. It will not, generally speaking, be a backup at all; it's your primary store of this data. Such data doesn't need to be retrieved on a moment's notice (if it was, you'd be storing it in a more expensive online store).
If you are an enterprise IT manager this is your dream come true.
Dream? No, nightmare. A machine the can't be configured as desitred and rewrites itself at will has no place in any corporate shop. You don't want the user rewriting the hosts file? That's not unreasonable and you can implement that right now, via policy so it's uniformly implemented. A client unavoidably rewriting itself against management wishes and that behavior can't be changed? Completely unacceptable. With this "feature", Windows 8 will not be installed in any corporate shop; at least not in any with any sort of a clue.
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And they've gone wrong!
Personally, I put it down to the Boomers deciding that Rules Are Bad(tm). Yes, the powerful can manipulate the rules to their own ends. Yes, rules sometimes prevent you from doing what you want. But sometimes, rules are all that prevent the powerful from simply taking everything they want. Sometimes, rules are the only thing preventing a person from acting like a self-centered asshole. Rules are necessary; they just need to be *good* rules.
Why? It seems perfectly plausible to me that different flood legends might trace back to different actual floods.
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However, there *were* reports of an SOS...
The "Mona Lisa" is a work of art, but I can't use it to get my work done. I want a *tool*.
...that they don't find out that the Van Allen belt is on fire!
Absolutely nothing. "The Cloud" is the in, new buzzword, and thus Marketing is making sure that whatever they're selling, it's part of The Cloud. Coming your way, Cloud-enabled galoshes! You can order them over the Internet!
Considering that the Tu-95 is a turboprop and thus not even capable of ordinary supersonic flight, that'd be a pretty neat trick!
Call of Duty: Psychology? Dude, when then did that come out? Imagine, gunning down the bad guys *and* rooting out their deep-seated anxieties! (Which are mainly about you gunning them down, but whatcha gonna do?)
Gah, another one. "Take away your studies and facts, I'm not listening, la la la la, I can't hear you..."
$145 million GDP and a population of 4.4 million means an annual income per capita of $33. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the world's poorest nation, has a figure more than ten times that. I think he meant to say $145 *billion* GDP. I believe he may be from New Zealand; I can't make the figures match up precisely, but it's close. He may have difference sources.
The amount of heat produced directly by all human activity combined is tiny compared to the heat applied by the sunlight the earth receives. The contribution of all human direct heat production is so small that no large-scale analysis of global heat retention even bothers to include it. Global warming is effectively entirely the result of increasing CO2, which increases the amount of incoming solar heat the Earth retains. Removing significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere would relieve global warming regardless of how much direct heat the process generated.
Um, you do realize that no human activity *creates* carbon, right? It just moves it around; in the case of global warming, we're moving it from in the ground (where it's not a problem) to in the atmosphere (where it is a problem). This moves the carbon back into the ground. How does that not work?
You see no problem with a society where hardly any women have college degrees? Well, whether you see it or not, it will be a terminally ill society.
And that all goes into the drug company's pocket, because, of course, vaccines cost nothing to make.
Vaccines make so little profit that there's difficulties in keeping the manufacturing of them going--and research into new ones has almost stopped.
And keep it...where, exactly? Under your mattress? That's not precisely a high-security solution. In this world of toil and sin, an FDIC-guaranteed savings account is about as safe as it gets.
Look, I know you draw a MS paycheck, but give it up. It's not pinin', it's passed on! It's bleedin' demised!
When cats are outlawed, only outlaws will have cats!
In that case, it's obviously not for you.
Some of us, however, are capable of planning ahead. I notice you said "restore from a backup." Note that this is not for backing up and restoring data you need to have available on a live basis. This is for truly *archive* data--data you don't need on a day-to-day basis but might need to retrieve in special cases. It will not, generally speaking, be a backup at all; it's your primary store of this data. Such data doesn't need to be retrieved on a moment's notice (if it was, you'd be storing it in a more expensive online store).
They were French, right? The French commitment to the August holidays is legendary. Even Spain and Italy aren't as bad.
that Bill Gates is giving Kim Jong Eun a nuclear reactor!
Dream? No, nightmare. A machine the can't be configured as desitred and rewrites itself at will has no place in any corporate shop. You don't want the user rewriting the hosts file? That's not unreasonable and you can implement that right now, via policy so it's uniformly implemented. A client unavoidably rewriting itself against management wishes and that behavior can't be changed? Completely unacceptable. With this "feature", Windows 8 will not be installed in any corporate shop; at least not in any with any sort of a clue.
Where Curiosity's going, it doesn't *need* roads.
Yeppers. It's a derivitive of "Levi", which is one of the Hebrew tribes.