This may not be a popular position to take, but I suspect you might just be right.. I have already seen the rot set in with their desktop OS.. which started just about the time that SJ's healt took a severe turn.. 10.6 was the first to 'upgrade' to be demonstrably worse than it's predecessor, and many feel that 'Lion' continues that trend.. I don't know about iOS but if it follows the same pattern, there could be problems.
The situation with Snow leopard is serious enough to make a 15 year mac veteran dump OSX for Linux.. that shows it's not just a couple of 'quirks'..
It's kinda nice to be at the beginning of such a huge mess.. and know it while it plays out..
The carrier IQ storm is , i think gonna be just *huge*.. this is the lull before the proverbial s* hits the fans.. IMHO
OK.. I get US History and Military Technology being available Majors, but in this militarized economy , how is it that military technology doesn't lead to the cash?
Now, US *technology* being dropped, as it's on it's way to extinction, I can understand, , and Military *History* is clearly under appreciated in this
"repeat the same mistakes' over and over again culture..
Just change the course names before dropping them...
Simply an ad designed by people who've spent too many years at the support desk...
Miss Marroon "well, i don;t think the built in video is that bad.. i don't see a difference now with that new $300 video card..
-support- "have you tried running any games?'
Miss. Marroon 'well no it's only finished starting up"
The damage that would do to the country would be EXTREME...
We would collapse the massive US prison system.. with so few prisoners now to take care of the employee layoffs would be devastating, plus all the spinoff industries that rely on the incarceration model..
Not to mention all the suddenly unemployed DEA agents..
Also the Trillions of dollars currently spent maintaining each inmate would suddenly be released into the treasury, and as , even if every single one were to go on welfare for the rest of their lives, there would still be 75 % left over, as it cost *at least* 4 times more to house an inmate than pay the highest welfare rates in the world, if wanted. This money would be able to pay for bribes and arm twisting in the much loved political machine that everybody is so proud of, so that things could run even more smooth than they do already!
The underground economy would be in shatters.. this tax-free base currently supports, it's been noted, 10% of the entire us economy..
just imagine the trouble ell the bureaucrats would have to deal with collecting these new taxes..
Which would also go into the coffers, with the savings mentioned earlier.. and promptly disappear like water, like all increased funds into the general revenues..
And what about those poor mexican mobsters, and american organized crime figures.. How are they going to feed their families now?
Such a cruel notion,, changing a system that has worked so well.. at only the cost of a few ten thousands ruined lives, of insignificant minority,or poor , or otherwise forgotten insignificant citizens, who currently have a nice job as residents in the incarceration system helping the great American machine pump along smoothly...
Really!
Unbelievable that some maroon would mod you as 'troll'..
The whole system of moderation, has of late, been invalidated by irresponsible, or intentionally incorrect moderations.
Re your response..
Absoutely. The very first thing that cam,me to mind was the mis-application of this form of bioengineering. Targeted mods like this are , guaranteed, going to be used in weapons systems. The fact that the summary itself uses the phrase 'Bioweapons' shows their true focus. To my best knowledge, I simply don't recall any instance of therapeutic treatments being called bioweapons!
Any net wide enough to catch all the criminals is going to snag a whole lot of innocent folks as well, with no regard for dignity..
Is that what we all really want? If so there's a good system to implement they used to have in Germany back in the 40's, and in Russia up to 30 years ago..
It's called the 'Police State'...
I must be getting old.. i thought the 'myth' that everybody was trying to do away with was that macs were 'expensive'.. although i think they are.. for what you get..
I use one. Have for 10 years straight. Also have used PCs.. my Dad now has my HP Hackintosh i put together for him so he didn't have to deal with worms etc.... which in every way cost less than my iMac.. even the windows 'Performance rating' is much lower.. even so, it's faster, and less trouble prone.. both in windows and OSX (both my iMac and the HP dual -boot,and have an almost identical motherboard/chip combination)..
I often joke with my dad that I'd gladly trade.. his is significantly faster than my iMac when running OSX..(which originally came with Leopard.. now 'upgraded' with Snow Leopard it's a slug..reminds me of the old 386 days).
There's more to consider than price when rating things as 'expensive'.. Just because Macs *look* nice, the reality is that there's no difference between them and any PC boards anymore.. and the high end PC boards kick 'em to kingdom come.Plus their OS's are so damn slow and cumbersome how can anyone get any work done anymore, i don't know.
Shame.I used to be a real dedicated Apple supporter.. Maybe they just don't care about their desktops anymore.. what with the ipods and ipads and phones etc...
Just to be off-topic for a moment..
My mod points are wasted and unusable as *every* post on every thread seems to have been marked 5 interesting or 5 informative by some one, making the whole system worth shit
They're just raising these kids to learn to be good Canadians.
Everything is dangerous if mishandled.
That's why everything is illegal here. People can't think for themselves.. they *need* a nanny state.
Besides, if it wasn't a good system, why would China and Russia have adopted it? Even as far as going back to it after flirting with freedom last decade, as in Russia's case.. and look at the US.. they're tripping over themselves to adopt this kind of a state.
Just keep the word 'Democracy' in there somewhere, as in Russia, and everybody'll be happy.
Ask Putin. He knows..
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It won't get better. As long as Intel keeps making faster processors , that allow sloppier and sloppier code, and more bloatware, with routines that seem to travel over a full light day per instruction.. people will step up to the plate and write to the processor.
Just wait until web pages average 200 MB apiece..you'll look fondly on these days...
I live in Canada, and some time ago wanted to switch from one of the 'Big Two' to one of the small ones (in fact the very first local ISP i ever signed up with)..
Turns out that they have to 1) apply for permission *from* the big two, before they can provide you service..if there's any unresolved issues between you and the big boys, including , but not limited to) unpaid bills, arbitration, complaints due TOS violations of any kind, etc etc, they can refuse permission to allow subcontracting access of any kind.. and they did in my case..
This is the nature of 'Free competition' in a fascist social domocracy.. and Canada fits the description to a tee.. the description is, by the way.. Fascist social democracies are those states win which the government owns, and regulates, in concert with big industry, almost everything, and has no mechanism in place to appeal decisions, to one's elected representatives between elections..
These small 'independents' provide illusory free market operability, and only can offer more variations of packaging of the same services already offered by the big boys.
Say, for example, that the big two are practicing DNS blocking of 'implicated copyright infringing' sites, which they do.. with regularly.. here in Canada, one of the few alternate services these smaller ISPs can offer is alternate DNS management.. However, that's already available online for free, with 30 seconds searching..
If there's throttling occuring, it is NOT going to be released via the subcontracting plan.. Even with Megabit internet, my speeds NEVER exceeded 1000 Kbps..
And now, down one step, on the high speed plan, i average only 300 to 450 Kbps.. on a good day.. if downloading from a 'suspect' file hosting service, my speeds often average 12- 36 Kbps... this does not change simply due to a subletting of the account. The main ISP is still watching the sub-letted account name, IP address, and history..
I could go on.. it's no different buying , say , car insurance, medicine (even if paying cash you still need a government registration card to be allowed to buy your prescription).
Not as bad as the UK here.. but on the way..
Rubbish.. by 1995 both NeXT and BeOS had nailed the direction that the desktop OS would be headed in, not to mention linux yadda yadda.. in fact, it was *only* Gates that was so behind the curve..
How is refraction a problem? By splitting up the beam into 2 parts, so that one branch continues on in precisely the previous direction, and one branch goes to light up some point or pixel.. would that not accomplish exactly the desired effect?
Or am I missing the obvious?
Actually, it's likely on/. because Oklahoma can't have earthquakes. It's a quake free zone.
Dunno if it's part of the shelf or what the reason is, but since 'it can't happen here' (thanks FZ!) then apparently there was no quake after all..
I'd stake my rep as a spin doctor on it...
Yeah all they're really good for is email, internet access, and simple games.. eventually the only people still using them will be folks who just want to check their email, go on the 'net.. or kill some time..
Soon as email, and the internet lose popularity,, the tablet 'fad' will pass..
Yup.. the Mayans and Egyptians likely did.. and any warning they may have intended is completely lost on everyone, as we're still arguing about what they meant,now, because nobody has a clue..
There's such a thing as being just TOO cryptic..
The only thought that comes to mind is how nice it was of the malware creators to give everybody the heads up on what they're currently working on..
Just so, you know , we can have a fix for it right away...
(!)
How much of that altitude is due to ice? I seem to remember that the Antarctic ice sheet is 2 miles thick in parts, but since that's already more than 10,000 feet, is the antarctic plains lowlands?
"OK now just right click that icon"...'but I'm left handed'
"No, take your finger and push the button on the right side of the mouse once and hold it down.. what do you see?".." My email browser explorer express just started up"
"no you clicked the LEFT button.. i want you to click the Right button!.. don't you know left from right"
"...hey don't get mad at me i'm not a computer EXPERT like you!"...20 minutes later...
that's click it TWO times.. double click means TWO clicks"
"...hey don't get mad at me i'm not a computer EXPERT like you!"....
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This may not be a popular position to take, but I suspect you might just be right.. I have already seen the rot set in with their desktop OS.. which started just about the time that SJ's healt took a severe turn.. 10.6 was the first to 'upgrade' to be demonstrably worse than it's predecessor, and many feel that 'Lion' continues that trend.. I don't know about iOS but if it follows the same pattern, there could be problems. The situation with Snow leopard is serious enough to make a 15 year mac veteran dump OSX for Linux.. that shows it's not just a couple of 'quirks'..
It's kinda nice to be at the beginning of such a huge mess.. and know it while it plays out.. The carrier IQ storm is , i think gonna be just *huge*.. this is the lull before the proverbial s* hits the fans.. IMHO
OK.. I get US History and Military Technology being available Majors, but in this militarized economy , how is it that military technology doesn't lead to the cash? Now, US *technology* being dropped, as it's on it's way to extinction, I can understand, , and Military *History* is clearly under appreciated in this "repeat the same mistakes' over and over again culture.. Just change the course names before dropping them ...
Simply an ad designed by people who've spent too many years at the support desk ...
Miss Marroon "well, i don;t think the built in video is that bad.. i don't see a difference now with that new $300 video card..
-support- "have you tried running any games?'
Miss. Marroon 'well no it's only finished starting up"
The damage that would do to the country would be EXTREME... We would collapse the massive US prison system.. with so few prisoners now to take care of the employee layoffs would be devastating, plus all the spinoff industries that rely on the incarceration model.. Not to mention all the suddenly unemployed DEA agents.. Also the Trillions of dollars currently spent maintaining each inmate would suddenly be released into the treasury, and as , even if every single one were to go on welfare for the rest of their lives, there would still be 75 % left over, as it cost *at least* 4 times more to house an inmate than pay the highest welfare rates in the world, if wanted. This money would be able to pay for bribes and arm twisting in the much loved political machine that everybody is so proud of, so that things could run even more smooth than they do already! The underground economy would be in shatters.. this tax-free base currently supports, it's been noted, 10% of the entire us economy.. just imagine the trouble ell the bureaucrats would have to deal with collecting these new taxes.. Which would also go into the coffers, with the savings mentioned earlier.. and promptly disappear like water, like all increased funds into the general revenues.. And what about those poor mexican mobsters, and american organized crime figures.. How are they going to feed their families now? Such a cruel notion,, changing a system that has worked so well.. at only the cost of a few ten thousands ruined lives, of insignificant minority ,or poor , or otherwise forgotten insignificant citizens, who currently have a nice job as residents in the incarceration system helping the great American machine pump along smoothly...
Really!
Unbelievable that some maroon would mod you as 'troll'.. The whole system of moderation, has of late, been invalidated by irresponsible, or intentionally incorrect moderations. Re your response.. Absoutely. The very first thing that cam,me to mind was the mis-application of this form of bioengineering. Targeted mods like this are , guaranteed, going to be used in weapons systems. The fact that the summary itself uses the phrase 'Bioweapons' shows their true focus. To my best knowledge, I simply don't recall any instance of therapeutic treatments being called bioweapons!
Any net wide enough to catch all the criminals is going to snag a whole lot of innocent folks as well, with no regard for dignity.. Is that what we all really want? If so there's a good system to implement they used to have in Germany back in the 40's, and in Russia up to 30 years ago.. It's called the 'Police State'...
I must be getting old.. i thought the 'myth' that everybody was trying to do away with was that macs were 'expensive'.. although i think they are.. for what you get.. I use one. Have for 10 years straight. Also have used PCs.. my Dad now has my HP Hackintosh i put together for him so he didn't have to deal with worms etc.... which in every way cost less than my iMac.. even the windows 'Performance rating' is much lower.. even so, it's faster, and less trouble prone.. both in windows and OSX (both my iMac and the HP dual -boot,and have an almost identical motherboard/chip combination).. I often joke with my dad that I'd gladly trade.. his is significantly faster than my iMac when running OSX..(which originally came with Leopard.. now 'upgraded' with Snow Leopard it's a slug..reminds me of the old 386 days). There's more to consider than price when rating things as 'expensive'.. Just because Macs *look* nice, the reality is that there's no difference between them and any PC boards anymore.. and the high end PC boards kick 'em to kingdom come.Plus their OS's are so damn slow and cumbersome how can anyone get any work done anymore, i don't know. Shame.I used to be a real dedicated Apple supporter.. Maybe they just don't care about their desktops anymore.. what with the ipods and ipads and phones etc...
The Macintosh of countries? You mean all it takes is for one business to freeze, and te whole country grinds to a standstill? Hmm..
Just to be off-topic for a moment.. My mod points are wasted and unusable as *every* post on every thread seems to have been marked 5 interesting or 5 informative by some one, making the whole system worth shit
They're just raising these kids to learn to be good Canadians. Everything is dangerous if mishandled. That's why everything is illegal here. People can't think for themselves.. they *need* a nanny state. Besides, if it wasn't a good system, why would China and Russia have adopted it? Even as far as going back to it after flirting with freedom last decade, as in Russia's case.. and look at the US.. they're tripping over themselves to adopt this kind of a state. Just keep the word 'Democracy' in there somewhere, as in Russia, and everybody'll be happy. Ask Putin. He knows..
It won't get better. As long as Intel keeps making faster processors , that allow sloppier and sloppier code, and more bloatware, with routines that seem to travel over a full light day per instruction .. people will step up to the plate and write to the processor.
Just wait until web pages average 200 MB apiece..you'll look fondly on these days...
I live in Canada, and some time ago wanted to switch from one of the 'Big Two' to one of the small ones (in fact the very first local ISP i ever signed up with).. Turns out that they have to 1) apply for permission *from* the big two, before they can provide you service..if there's any unresolved issues between you and the big boys, including , but not limited to) unpaid bills, arbitration, complaints due TOS violations of any kind, etc etc, they can refuse permission to allow subcontracting access of any kind.. and they did in my case.. This is the nature of 'Free competition' in a fascist social domocracy.. and Canada fits the description to a tee.. the description is, by the way .. Fascist social democracies are those states win which the government owns, and regulates, in concert with big industry, almost everything, and has no mechanism in place to appeal decisions, to one's elected representatives between elections..
These small 'independents' provide illusory free market operability, and only can offer more variations of packaging of the same services already offered by the big boys.
Say, for example, that the big two are practicing DNS blocking of 'implicated copyright infringing' sites, which they do.. with regularly.. here in Canada, one of the few alternate services these smaller ISPs can offer is alternate DNS management.. However, that's already available online for free, with 30 seconds searching..
If there's throttling occuring, it is NOT going to be released via the subcontracting plan.. Even with Megabit internet, my speeds NEVER exceeded 1000 Kbps..
And now, down one step, on the high speed plan, i average only 300 to 450 Kbps.. on a good day .. if downloading from a 'suspect' file hosting service, my speeds often average 12- 36 Kbps... this does not change simply due to a subletting of the account. The main ISP is still watching the sub-letted account name, IP address, and history..
I could go on.. it's no different buying , say , car insurance, medicine (even if paying cash you still need a government registration card to be allowed to buy your prescription).
Not as bad as the UK here.. but on the way..
Rubbish.. by 1995 both NeXT and BeOS had nailed the direction that the desktop OS would be headed in, not to mention linux yadda yadda.. in fact, it was *only* Gates that was so behind the curve..
MEH.. i live in Canada
How is refraction a problem? By splitting up the beam into 2 parts, so that one branch continues on in precisely the previous direction, and one branch goes to light up some point or pixel.. would that not accomplish exactly the desired effect? Or am I missing the obvious?
Actually, it's likely on /. because Oklahoma can't have earthquakes. It's a quake free zone.
Dunno if it's part of the shelf or what the reason is, but since 'it can't happen here' (thanks FZ!) then apparently there was no quake after all..
I'd stake my rep as a spin doctor on it...
Yeah all they're really good for is email, internet access, and simple games.. eventually the only people still using them will be folks who just want to check their email, go on the 'net.. or kill some time.. Soon as email, and the internet lose popularity,, the tablet 'fad' will pass..
Yup.. the Mayans and Egyptians likely did.. and any warning they may have intended is completely lost on everyone, as we're still arguing about what they meant ,now, because nobody has a clue..
There's such a thing as being just TOO cryptic..
Ditto.. i thought it was a good thing.. Apparently i know nothing at all...
Wouldn't the best original statement have been 'it begs the question , did he only find the tape because Steve died?'
The only thought that comes to mind is how nice it was of the malware creators to give everybody the heads up on what they're currently working on.. Just so, you know , we can have a fix for it right away... (!)
How much of that altitude is due to ice? I seem to remember that the Antarctic ice sheet is 2 miles thick in parts, but since that's already more than 10,000 feet, is the antarctic plains lowlands?
Uh, he went out with a singer that had to have reconstructive surgery on her nose from too much cocaine? And he's your guv'ner? Good luck!
"OK now just right click that icon" ...'but I'm left handed'
"No, take your finger and push the button on the right side of the mouse once and hold it down.. what do you see?" .." My email browser explorer express just started up"
"no you clicked the LEFT button.. i want you to click the Right button!.. don't you know left from right"
"...hey don't get mad at me i'm not a computer EXPERT like you!" ...20 minutes later...
that's click it TWO times .. double click means TWO clicks"
"...hey don't get mad at me i'm not a computer EXPERT like you!" ....