But Obama is ENDING the wars. S-l-o-w-l-y. He deserves the peace price for ending the wars in 4 years instead of Bush's 8 year schedule, and thereby "only" killing half as many people.
>>>I don't think that MAD is a good deterrent for an extremist religious fundie...
We have "extremist religious fundies" running Pakistan and India, but I don't see them nuking one another. You claim the MAD Stalemate does not work in that case, but clearly it's working just fine.
Except the leaders (both the president and the higher-level Ayatollah) have both started they have no interest in attacking Israel..... probably because they know it would be suicide (mutually assured destruction). We also have religious people running Pakistan and India, but I don't see them nuking one another. The MAD Stalemate works.
To describe 10 million Iranians as "insane" smacks of anti-persian racism. It's the same kind of nonsense people said about blacks during WW2 ("They are not sane or intelligent enough to handle big equipment like tanks or planes.").
>>>I use to care, but then I spent more time finding the perfect GUI then I did actually doing work. So if it has Unity, I'll deal with it. Is it my favorate... No but it isn't worth it for me to try over and over again. >>> Exactly.
Why was this article even posted? "Why aren't you using KDE?" sounds like an advertisement. "You liked Windows Mohave, which is really Vista in disguise. So why aren't you using Vista?" - "Why are you still reading books when you can use Kindle instead?" - "Why didn't you buy an iPhone yet?" - "Have you played Atari today?"
Answer: I'm using Lubuntu which comes with the lightweight LXDE for low-RAM laptops.
I still watch TV. I admit I don't pay much attention to it. I just turn on some random channel (usually the antennaTV channel), but focus my attention on the internet screen. Only time I pay attention is if a classic Twilight Zone or Hitchcock episode appears.
Watch the youtube videos of a mother being held in glass jails (her crime: carrying milk for her baby), or thrown to the ground by TSA, or other disgusting events, and you'll see how bad things truly are.
Apple earned about 25,000 million last year, which comes to 2.8 million per *60* minutes..... not a mere 3-4. I can't help wondering why the judge is worried about the fine being too large. Apple won't be hurt by this.
Funny how these markets and lawyers and politicians always leave-out relevant facts. "Alan Archibald, QC, acting for Apple, told the court it was irrelevant how many iPads had been sold or returned because Apple had offered to provide full refunds, so there was no loss to customers. "What conceiveable damage might there be?", he said."
The guy forgets that Apple only offered these refunds AFTER the government started prosecuting them. That alone is reason enough to fine them, because had the government not existed, then Apple would have happily lied with its "iPhone 4G" campaign and refused to refund the cash to the ripped-off Australians. (Also refunding the phone doesn't mean customers are exempt from the 2-3 year contracts. Now they are phoneless, but still stuck with a bill.)
I'm amazed they didn't get arrested by the TSA or FCC or DHS. Or at least get hatemail from the same people who spammed a magazine that said "How to Hack your Computer" on the cover.
I know some too, but the reason *millions* of people quit over the last ~5 decades is due to (1) school systems telling children not to smoke and (2) society gradually viewing smokers with the same disdain as nose-pickers. In the 30s/40s almost everyone smoked. Now almost everybody does Not smoke.
I think even if the "sin tax" had never been applied, the smoking would still have plummeted dramatically. For some politician to say "the tax is the reason, therefore let's start sin taxing sodas too" is wholly false. He's twisting reality to push his new tax. I suspect less than 1% quit because of cost, but instead quit for the other reasons I mentioned (school education & don't want to be called "dirty").
>>> Apple nonetheless was the first to do it right. I used smartphone pre iPhone, Nokia's were great and WM5 touch interface was a joke. Apple did it right with their gestures and multitouch capacitive screens. >>>
I know little about phones (mine is a dumb device that just makes calls), but I suspect if I dug I'd find something like iPhone before iPhone existed, just as MP3 players existed before iPod.
ALSO when I switched from Commodore Amiga (home) to Apple Macintosh (school) it felt like a step DOWN not up. Black-and-white. Sucky sound. Slow to respond to inputs..... I was very happy to get back home and on the C=Amiga again. (Back in the 80s the Apple IIs also felt very inferior to the old 8 bit Ataris/Commodores I had.)
I don't think so? That was cooperative tasking. I remember how annoyed I was that one crashed program could make the whole MacOS freeze-up (because the hung task was not releasing the CPU for other programs/tasks).
>>>Windows 95 and NT/2000 ran the table and successfully murdered industry titans such as OS/2, NetWare, MacOS, and Sun Workstations as well as other minor competitors (Amiga, Linux-on-the-Desktop, etc).
Amiga was the 2nd-best-selling computer at the time. Not exactly "minor". And Microsoft didn't really "murder" anything..... it was the Compaq, Gateway, and other IBM PC clones that crushed the competition through sheer weight of sales (already 90% share by 1995). As I said before: Microsoft just rode the wave. They got lucky to be the default OS on the near-monopoly platform.
I have an old laptop like that. Even though it has 256 megabytes stock, it only shows 224 MB under the computer information. The other "missing" RAM is being used for graphics. (Strangely my laptop runs okay like that. Maybe because it's still using the original XP.)
"Internet usage, mobile phone voice usage, mobile phone location-based services, text messaging, Skype, every social networking site aside from LinkedIn, all Internet-enabled devices, e-readers, health-care devices, and GPS." --- Most of these things all revolve around communicating with others. Daughters used to spend all their time talking on the phone (watch an old episode of Gidget for an example). Now it's texting on internet devices.
Healthcare makes sense, since it's usually the mom that deals with sick kids. Ditto GPS/location services since they are driving the kids around. And e-readers are handy to use while waiting for the kids to finish with their doctor appointments or soccer games.
I draw the line at buying some minivan or SUV though. I like my car.
I would go for a 2-year technician degree since it sounds that's the level he's currently at. Overload with credits and do summer classes, and he'll probably finished in 1.3 years. You need the "sheepskin" to get past the HR people.
TRIVIA - It takes 2 days to download GoT over dialup (70 megabyte rips).
And to answer another guy's question: The reasons people pirate Free TV shows like Big Bang Theory are numerous. The reason I do it is (1) I forgot to set the VCR or more likely (2) I am downloading old season 1 or 2 that no longer air. I'm downloading Fringe 1 even as we speak.
That requires effort (lifting my hand and typing). Easier to move my mouse a millimeter and click Start, MS Word, Open Doc, click desired file, and start reading.;-)
>>>What, are you one of those people who has their desktop covered with shortcut icons?
First thing I do is erase all that junk from my desktop and tab bar. The cleaner the appearance, the better it looks. (Plus I don't have to push my windows around trying to find hidden icons underneath them.)
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I have little interest in alien hoe, unless they look like one of Quark's Dabo girls. (Or Bajoran Girl Lyta when she was still thin.)
But Obama is ENDING the wars. S-l-o-w-l-y. He deserves the peace price for ending the wars in 4 years instead of Bush's 8 year schedule, and thereby "only" killing half as many people.
>>>I think that if we adopt the cloud model for our internal networks (i.e. a private cloud)
Why are we inventing new words when the old word "network" was just fine?
>>>I don't think that MAD is a good deterrent for an extremist religious fundie...
We have "extremist religious fundies" running Pakistan and India, but I don't see them nuking one another. You claim the MAD Stalemate does not work in that case, but clearly it's working just fine.
Except the leaders (both the president and the higher-level Ayatollah) have both started they have no interest in attacking Israel..... probably because they know it would be suicide (mutually assured destruction). We also have religious people running Pakistan and India, but I don't see them nuking one another. The MAD Stalemate works.
Bread-making machines already exist. Toss in the ingredients and it mixes them into dough, and then cooks it into a loaf.
If APPEARANCE is the only reason, then it can wait until the guests drop by, and THEN I will make it. Not before.
To describe 10 million Iranians as "insane" smacks of anti-persian racism. It's the same kind of nonsense people said about blacks during WW2 ("They are not sane or intelligent enough to handle big equipment like tanks or planes.").
>>>I use to care, but then I spent more time finding the perfect GUI then I did actually doing work. So if it has Unity, I'll deal with it. Is it my favorate... No but it isn't worth it for me to try over and over again.
>>>
Exactly.
Why was this article even posted? "Why aren't you using KDE?" sounds like an advertisement. "You liked Windows Mohave, which is really Vista in disguise. So why aren't you using Vista?" - "Why are you still reading books when you can use Kindle instead?" - "Why didn't you buy an iPhone yet?" - "Have you played Atari today?"
Answer: I'm using Lubuntu which comes with the lightweight LXDE for low-RAM laptops.
I still watch TV. I admit I don't pay much attention to it. I just turn on some random channel (usually the antennaTV channel), but focus my attention on the internet screen. Only time I pay attention is if a classic Twilight Zone or Hitchcock episode appears.
Watch the youtube videos of a mother being held in glass jails (her crime: carrying milk for her baby), or thrown to the ground by TSA, or other disgusting events, and you'll see how bad things truly are.
Apple earned about 25,000 million last year, which comes to 2.8 million per *60* minutes..... not a mere 3-4. I can't help wondering why the judge is worried about the fine being too large. Apple won't be hurt by this.
Funny how these markets and lawyers and politicians always leave-out relevant facts. "Alan Archibald, QC, acting for Apple, told the court it was irrelevant how many iPads had been sold or returned because Apple had offered to provide full refunds, so there was no loss to customers. "What conceiveable damage might there be?", he said."
The guy forgets that Apple only offered these refunds AFTER the government started prosecuting them. That alone is reason enough to fine them, because had the government not existed, then Apple would have happily lied with its "iPhone 4G" campaign and refused to refund the cash to the ripped-off Australians. (Also refunding the phone doesn't mean customers are exempt from the 2-3 year contracts. Now they are phoneless, but still stuck with a bill.)
I'm amazed they didn't get arrested by the TSA or FCC or DHS. Or at least get hatemail from the same people who spammed a magazine that said "How to Hack your Computer" on the cover.
I know some too, but the reason *millions* of people quit over the last ~5 decades is due to (1) school systems telling children not to smoke and (2) society gradually viewing smokers with the same disdain as nose-pickers. In the 30s/40s almost everyone smoked. Now almost everybody does Not smoke.
I think even if the "sin tax" had never been applied, the smoking would still have plummeted dramatically. For some politician to say "the tax is the reason, therefore let's start sin taxing sodas too" is wholly false. He's twisting reality to push his new tax. I suspect less than 1% quit because of cost, but instead quit for the other reasons I mentioned (school education & don't want to be called "dirty").
>>> Apple nonetheless was the first to do it right. I used smartphone pre iPhone, Nokia's were great and WM5 touch interface was a joke. Apple did it right with their gestures and multitouch capacitive screens.
>>>
I know little about phones (mine is a dumb device that just makes calls), but I suspect if I dug I'd find something like iPhone before iPhone existed, just as MP3 players existed before iPod.
ALSO when I switched from Commodore Amiga (home) to Apple Macintosh (school) it felt like a step DOWN not up. Black-and-white. Sucky sound. Slow to respond to inputs..... I was very happy to get back home and on the C=Amiga again. (Back in the 80s the Apple IIs also felt very inferior to the old 8 bit Ataris/Commodores I had.)
>>>Apple had limited preemptive multitasking (95)
I don't think so? That was cooperative tasking. I remember how annoyed I was that one crashed program could make the whole MacOS freeze-up (because the hung task was not releasing the CPU for other programs/tasks).
>>>Windows 95 and NT/2000 ran the table and successfully murdered industry titans such as OS/2, NetWare, MacOS, and Sun Workstations as well as other minor competitors (Amiga, Linux-on-the-Desktop, etc).
Amiga was the 2nd-best-selling computer at the time. Not exactly "minor". And Microsoft didn't really "murder" anything..... it was the Compaq, Gateway, and other IBM PC clones that crushed the competition through sheer weight of sales (already 90% share by 1995). As I said before: Microsoft just rode the wave. They got lucky to be the default OS on the near-monopoly platform.
I have an old laptop like that. Even though it has 256 megabytes stock, it only shows 224 MB under the computer information. The other "missing" RAM is being used for graphics. (Strangely my laptop runs okay like that. Maybe because it's still using the original XP.)
"Internet usage, mobile phone voice usage, mobile phone location-based services, text messaging, Skype, every social networking site aside from LinkedIn, all Internet-enabled devices, e-readers, health-care devices, and GPS." --- Most of these things all revolve around communicating with others. Daughters used to spend all their time talking on the phone (watch an old episode of Gidget for an example). Now it's texting on internet devices.
Healthcare makes sense, since it's usually the mom that deals with sick kids. Ditto GPS/location services since they are driving the kids around. And e-readers are handy to use while waiting for the kids to finish with their doctor appointments or soccer games.
I draw the line at buying some minivan or SUV though.
I like my car.
I would go for a 2-year technician degree since it sounds that's the level he's currently at. Overload with credits and do summer classes, and he'll probably finished in 1.3 years. You need the "sheepskin" to get past the HR people.
TRIVIA - It takes 2 days to download GoT over dialup (70 megabyte rips).
And to answer another guy's question: The reasons people pirate Free TV shows like Big Bang Theory are numerous. The reason I do it is (1) I forgot to set the VCR or more likely (2) I am downloading old season 1 or 2 that no longer air. I'm downloading Fringe 1 even as we speak.
>>>To start Word, Windows Key, w, o, r, d, enter.
That requires effort (lifting my hand and typing). Easier to move my mouse a millimeter and click Start, MS Word, Open Doc, click desired file, and start reading. ;-)
>>>What, are you one of those people who has their desktop covered with shortcut icons?
First thing I do is erase all that junk from my desktop and tab bar. The cleaner the appearance, the better it looks. (Plus I don't have to push my windows around trying to find hidden icons underneath them.)