Your google laptop can't do anything..... not even access your files. This has happened just twice at home, but seems to happen a LOT at work and in hotels. I'd rather have local dh0: copies of my programs and files, so I can work while offline,
I suppose this is why OSS advocates claim closed-source is bad? You can't fix the problem yourself, and if the company refuses to do it, then you're stuck.
How many chances am I supposed to give this company? They've let me down almost every time... the earliest being when I tried to multitask in Windows 3 and 95, but it hung the system repeatedly (cooperative tasking sucks). Then I tried to play Wing Commander and it refused to run due to graphics-card incompatibilities/broken drivers. I ended-up playing the Commodore Amiga version instead (just plug'n'play). More recently MS media player refuses to execute half the movies I throw at it. Thank god for VLC player.
Windows XP was the first stable OS to come out of that company, so I had high hopes they had turned around... but then I experienced Vista on my brother's brand-new 1/2 gig machine. It was ass..... random freeze-ups for 2-3 minutes.
Better to avoid MS as much as possible. I'll use their OS because it's the defacto-standard, but nothing else, and most certainly not their SkyDrive. It would probably lose my files.
I was gonna keep quiet, but you're the second person to refer to dinosaurs. Let me give you a hint: Dinosaurs didn't exist 2.5 million years ago.
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IOWA 13 (Romney) 13 (Santorum) 1 (Paul)
Way to cite a link that is so obviously wrong. It is now confirmed, by a recount reported by NBC's Rachel Maddow, that Paul walked off with half the delegates in Iowa and Minnesota. That's 14 delegates, not 1.
Any news organization that claims in their "count" that Paul got less than half in these two states is lying to you. (Sorry to be blunt but a lie if a lie... I call it what it is.)
If Greens or environmentalists really cared about energy usage, they would tear down their houses and erect a PassivHaus that doesn't need heating in the winter (because it has near-perfect insulation). That move would drop energy usage to just the TV, computer, lights..... a few dozen KWh per month per home.
In fact, I am sooooo concerned about this, I propose that the government outlaw all normal houses and require people build PassivHaus's in their place (unless said person is poor). It would not only convert us to a near-zero energy use for heating but also stimulate the economy by creating jobs.
The Broken Window effect. Break the house. Rebuild it in better form. Like we did with cash-for-clunker cars.
>>>if you live on mostly meats without much in the way of carbs, you'll be just fine and your body will consume those "bad fats."
What BS. The bad fats will simply accumulate in the walls of your arteries, giving them a "foam" appearance until a clot is formed. Then you experience poor circulation in your legs/arms (causes pain), and eventually die of stroke or heart attack when they are starved of blood.
If you really cared about energy usage, you would tear down your house and erect a PassivHaus that doesn't need heating in the winter (because it has near-perfect insulation), and drop your energy usage to just your TV, computer, and lights... a few dozen KWh per month.
In fact, I am sooooo concerned about this, I propose that the government outlaw all normal houses and require people build PassivHaus's in their place (unless said person is poor). It would not only convert us to a near-zero energy use for heating but also stimulate the economy by creating jobs.
The Broken Window effect. Break the house. Rebuild it in better form. Like we did with cash-for-clunker cars.
The Earth's temperature has been warming since the last glaciers melted ~10,000 years ago. I doubt it was caused by Ugh's cave fires. It's just a natural process.
>>>if you live on mostly meats without much in the way of carbs, you'll be just fine and your body will consume those "bad fats."
What BS. The bad fats will simply accumulate in the walls of your arteries, giving them a "foam" appearance until a clot is formed. Then you die like the doctor who came-up with this "eat lots of fat" diet.
I can already see the future article: "Latest Firefox update causes browser not to boot. Mozilla apologizes for the error and is working on a fix."
I leave the autoupdates turned off and manually update (click yes on the "do you want to update" window) when I'm sure it won't break anything (no news reports of angry users). This silent update feature has caused problems for other programs, or even preventing the PC from boothing, so I figure it's only a matter of time for FF.
Wait a week or two to see if the news services report about rampant Firefox brickage from a buggy update. THEN do your update if everything appears safe.
>>>Firefox updates don't actually break computers (at worst they could break the browser)
I thought the same initially but then I remembered the Antivirus software from a few months ago that caused computers to stop booting. An autoupdate for an AV program shouldn't do anything worse than "break" the AV program, and yet it did far worse than that.
It will be just like that movie Day After Tomorrow, where blizzard hurricanes suck the cold air out of the stratosphere and freeze people in mere seconds.
kidding..... The methane will get eaten by bacteria and then it will no longer be an issue.
I don't know what to believe any more. First I hear the ice poles are shrinking, and now I hear the icecaps are actually expanding in range. Global Warming should be renamed Global WTF.
>>>Yes, it does require a bit more care on the part of the vendor to make sure they don't automatically break everyone's computer but that is a necessary risk.
So instead of worrying a virus might sneak-in and break my machine (that's happened like twice in 10 years), instead I have to worry that the developer will do it for me (which seems to happen a lot). No. Thanks.
Wow that is stupid; it's the windows-equivalent of giving Mozilla corporation root access. Who's in charge of this project? The new firefox Lead should be fired and bring back the old one.
I thought they lost their focus when Firefox started being as big-and-bulky as the original Netscape Communicator. It was originally split-off to be a basic browser that didn't eat-up a lot of RAM or CPU time. At least Netscape Communicator (renamed Mozilla seaMonkey) included an email client, usenet reader, HTML editor, and other functions. Ditto Opera. But firefox takes-up the same bulk but with none of the extras.
"Latest Firefox update causes computer not to boot. Mozilla apologizes for the error and is working on a fix." -- I leave the autoupdates turned off and update when it's been around for awhile, and won't break anything. This silent update feature sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
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I was too busy watching Jenny Agutter: http://i2.listal.com/image/343660/600full-jenny-agutter.jpg I ought to download and read the Logan's Run book sometime.
Make the solar cells part of modular homes where the roof and panel are built as one in a mass-production factory.
>>>shown repeatedly that Windows is more secure than Mac OS
I've never heard that before. Where has it been shown? Where does Linux fall? More or less secure than Mac?
Citation: NBC's Rachel Maddow. She says Paul won 14 delegates in Iowa, not the 1 the NYT is claiming.
Your google laptop can't do anything..... not even access your files. This has happened just twice at home, but seems to happen a LOT at work and in hotels. I'd rather have local dh0: copies of my programs and files, so I can work while offline,
>>>the failure to address it.
I suppose this is why OSS advocates claim closed-source is bad? You can't fix the problem yourself, and if the company refuses to do it, then you're stuck.
Skydrive?
One word:
Microsoft.
How many chances am I supposed to give this company? They've let me down almost every time... the earliest being when I tried to multitask in Windows 3 and 95, but it hung the system repeatedly (cooperative tasking sucks). Then I tried to play Wing Commander and it refused to run due to graphics-card incompatibilities/broken drivers. I ended-up playing the Commodore Amiga version instead (just plug'n'play). More recently MS media player refuses to execute half the movies I throw at it. Thank god for VLC player.
Windows XP was the first stable OS to come out of that company, so I had high hopes they had turned around... but then I experienced Vista on my brother's brand-new 1/2 gig machine. It was ass..... random freeze-ups for 2-3 minutes.
Better to avoid MS as much as possible. I'll use their OS because it's the defacto-standard, but nothing else, and most certainly not their SkyDrive. It would probably lose my files.
I was gonna keep quiet, but you're the second person to refer to dinosaurs. Let me give you a hint: Dinosaurs didn't exist 2.5 million years ago.
UPDATE:
IOWA 13 (Romney) 13 (Santorum) 1 (Paul)
Way to cite a link that is so obviously wrong. It is now confirmed, by a recount reported by NBC's Rachel Maddow, that Paul walked off with half the delegates in Iowa and Minnesota. That's 14 delegates, not 1.
Any news organization that claims in their "count" that Paul got less than half in these two states is lying to you. (Sorry to be blunt but a lie if a lie... I call it what it is.)
Maybe you're eating the wrong stuff then. The turkey bacon I buy tastes identical to bacon, minus all the nasty grease (ick).
If Greens or environmentalists really cared about energy usage, they would tear down their houses and erect a PassivHaus that doesn't need heating in the winter (because it has near-perfect insulation). That move would drop energy usage to just the TV, computer, lights..... a few dozen KWh per month per home.
In fact, I am sooooo concerned about this, I propose that the government outlaw all normal houses and require people build PassivHaus's in their place (unless said person is poor). It would not only convert us to a near-zero energy use for heating but also stimulate the economy by creating jobs.
The Broken Window effect.
Break the house. Rebuild it in better form.
Like we did with cash-for-clunker cars.
>>>if you live on mostly meats without much in the way of carbs, you'll be just fine and your body will consume those "bad fats."
What BS. The bad fats will simply accumulate in the walls of your arteries, giving them a "foam" appearance until a clot is formed. Then you experience poor circulation in your legs/arms (causes pain), and eventually die of stroke or heart attack when they are starved of blood.
If you really cared about energy usage, you would tear down your house and erect a PassivHaus that doesn't need heating in the winter (because it has near-perfect insulation), and drop your energy usage to just your TV, computer, and lights... a few dozen KWh per month.
In fact, I am sooooo concerned about this, I propose that the government outlaw all normal houses and require people build PassivHaus's in their place (unless said person is poor). It would not only convert us to a near-zero energy use for heating but also stimulate the economy by creating jobs.
The Broken Window effect. Break the house. Rebuild it in better form. Like we did with cash-for-clunker cars.
The Earth's temperature has been warming since the last glaciers melted ~10,000 years ago. I doubt it was caused by Ugh's cave fires. It's just a natural process.
>>>if you live on mostly meats without much in the way of carbs, you'll be just fine and your body will consume those "bad fats."
What BS. The bad fats will simply accumulate in the walls of your arteries, giving them a "foam" appearance until a clot is formed. Then you die like the doctor who came-up with this "eat lots of fat" diet.
They already have that. It's chicken or turkey strips flavored like bacon. Very good with almost no bad fat.
They already have that. It's chicken or turkey strips flavored like bacon. Very good with almost no bad fat.
I can already see the future article: "Latest Firefox update causes browser not to boot. Mozilla apologizes for the error and is working on a fix."
I leave the autoupdates turned off and manually update (click yes on the "do you want to update" window) when I'm sure it won't break anything (no news reports of angry users). This silent update feature has caused problems for other programs, or even preventing the PC from boothing, so I figure it's only a matter of time for FF.
Wait a week or two to see if the news services report about rampant Firefox brickage from a buggy update. THEN do your update if everything appears safe.
>>>Firefox updates don't actually break computers (at worst they could break the browser)
I thought the same initially but then I remembered the Antivirus software from a few months ago that caused computers to stop booting. An autoupdate for an AV program shouldn't do anything worse than "break" the AV program, and yet it did far worse than that.
Good news: We're still in the middle of an ice age. It's not as hot now as it was 2.5 million years ago (when there was no ice on the poles).
>>>will we notice immediately?
It will be just like that movie Day After Tomorrow, where blizzard hurricanes suck the cold air out of the stratosphere and freeze people in mere seconds.
kidding..... The methane will get eaten by bacteria and then it will no longer be an issue.
I don't know what to believe any more. First I hear the ice poles are shrinking, and now I hear the icecaps are actually expanding in range. Global Warming should be renamed Global WTF.
>>>Yes, it does require a bit more care on the part of the vendor to make sure they don't automatically break everyone's computer but that is a necessary risk.
So instead of worrying a virus might sneak-in and break my machine (that's happened like twice in 10 years), instead I have to worry that the developer will do it for me (which seems to happen a lot). No. Thanks.
Wow that is stupid; it's the windows-equivalent of giving Mozilla corporation root access. Who's in charge of this project? The new firefox Lead should be fired and bring back the old one.
I thought they lost their focus when Firefox started being as big-and-bulky as the original Netscape Communicator. It was originally split-off to be a basic browser that didn't eat-up a lot of RAM or CPU time. At least Netscape Communicator (renamed Mozilla seaMonkey) included an email client, usenet reader, HTML editor, and other functions. Ditto Opera. But firefox takes-up the same bulk but with none of the extras.
I can already see the future article:
"Latest Firefox update causes computer not to boot. Mozilla apologizes for the error and is working on a fix." -- I leave the autoupdates turned off and update when it's been around for awhile, and won't break anything. This silent update feature sounds like an accident waiting to happen.