Nationalise all the coal mines then shut them down. (Any which are still operating, by any rate.)
Slap a large carbon tax on import coal for power plants.
Power generators which run on natural gas or oil, slap a carbon tax on those, too.
Hydro, well the enviromentalists hate hydro because it
interfers with the social lives of fish, such as the snail darter so bust the dams.
Enviros also hate those wind generators, which kill wild fowl with their big blades, knock 'em down.
The last battleground and current battle ground for decades, where to bury the waste from Nuclear Power. Nimbys are the log-jam there. Just
find the place with the weakest resistance and bury it there. There's hardly anyone in North Dakota, so that state should be a push-over.
Don't anybody even suggest raising rates to reduce consumption, that's anti-progress!
Can you, by chance, name any other successful, cool and useful, endeavours that Microsoft has produced over the years? They seem to be escaping me at the moment
I'm hard pressed to, though I'm certain they have some somewhere. Typically Microsoft, as a corporate strategy, wait for something successful to emerge, then copy it. A company needs to grow, but Microsoft seem to see themselves as the end-all be-all, grow into markets which have only the most tenuous connection to their core products.
However, I see nothing wrong with MS adding more value onto their Live service.
The point you missed in your tirade is this: Microsoft is again off on another front to compete with products which do something not connected to any operating system, though provide services on the internet, core to a business. Microsoft should leave these to companies which focus on them, work with the companies and to function in ways Microsoft may consider beneficial, but leave the burden of the business to those companies. Microsoft is like some octopus which grows arms as it sees each need and has now become so cumbersome it can't take care of job number one, which is create an operating system.
'Evidently, Microsoft sees the effort as an online extension
of its current desktop technology.'
Is this this same strategy which has brought us massive code bloat at the
cost of random number security?
One of these days, someone is going to come up with an April Fools 'Virtual Wombat Herding' and Microsoft will "innovate" their own
incarnation as it will be seen as a vital extension of its current desktop technology and won't they look the silly buggers.
If it's that good, why don't they just require standard government ID and use the face recognizer to determine if the buyer is the person on the ID and let the ID provide the age?
Perhaps they should just use a fingerprint analyser...
or Blood tester (Give blood - Smoke!)
or LungCam (hai! As dark as a pint of Sapporo Black!
or Manga-reflex (If your pupils dialate at this then you are under 21)
And of course, what about people who look older than they actually are? I had a friend in high school who liked he was almost thirty before he even turned twenty.
And those who look far younger than they are. I recall an embarrassing gaffe where a friend of a friend offered to drive us to some store. He nipped into the house and emerged with the keys, started the car and away we went. I asked if his mom knew he drove her car. Ooops. He was 18 and it was his car, though he looked for the world like he was 13.
And if that doesn't work, they'll figure out, yet, how to beat the machine, keeping the mask warm under shirt if it's looking for IR. Eventually this will inconvenience
smokers.
I never realized how much I needed it until I had it. Accidentally close the wrong page or wnat to check one last thing before you did?
This generally happens because I have so many tabs/windows open I can't tell them apart and hit the close widget I think I mean. Perhaps unique colours for each tab or window header?
Do you ever notice that we seem to be re-inventing everything we've learned before?
I began noticing this with Windows 95. The bastards said it would run in 4MB of memory. Technically it would, if you only ever wanted to start it up. (12MB was the bare minimum to run some modest apps without paging.) I admined a Dec PDP 11/45 and learned a lot about tuning a system for performance. When you had 256 KB of memory, 2 88MB HDDs, a 4 MB core memory swap disk (anyone ever see a Megastore?:) and had to shared nicely among as many as 40 users at a time, you learned how to get the most out of it. Seems the approach these days is: Throw more money at it. Buy more RAM, bigger HDD, upgrade (why do Windows upgrades always require tonnes more RAM?), faster CPU, etc. Performance tuning at Microsoft seems blasphemy.
Beta Wish #0.9: All those cheapskates out there still running on Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Win 2K, Win NT, Win ME and Win XP upgrade and throw more money at us.
When installing Windows, I make a partition specifically for the swap file and temp files. That way they don't add to the fragmentation mess of the OS partition.
Is this a unique feature to Vista? I don't recall having that option on XP
Speaking of which, why does Windows still use a variable sized swap file? I lock it down to 2x RAM or 4GB. Whichever is larger. I do not want fragmentation in the swap file. I'd prefer not to need one, but that's another story.
This is indeed a mystery. Even back in the 1970's you could designate a device to use for the swap file and it was pre-extended. You even had the option to place it on the middle cylinders of a disk so it was, on average, faster to access.
Who needs Windows sodium chloride: Us open source people make our own. Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH
Oh, but they will find some way to tell you it does!
"Windows7 - Sales up 27% over Windows Vista among one-legged, blind, ambisexual, vegetarian, wombat herders born under a full moon in a month with an R in it"
So last year around Christmas I break down and finally buy an iPod. There's pallets of iPods and they're moving, by the looks of it. There's also a pallet of Zunes. Looks like they've sold about 5 players.
Making a deal with CostCo to sell your stuff doesn't mean people will buy it.
The question I was thinking: Did they use babelfish again to turn it back into english?
Reminds me of silly timewasting things a co-worker used to do: punch stuff in, translate to another language, then translate back. Then he'd laugh his head off at it. Generally, to be that silly, I require considerable sleep deprivation.
The iphone's screen isn't hard to read. just because Google wants to make a phone doesn't mean it has to be the same crap we have right now. In fact, I'd say Google has the innovation potential to make a really great phone the likes we haven't seen yet.
Just occurred to me I know one of the researchers at Google who has spent a considerable amount of time on the study of mobile phone interfaces. I expect his work will have some influence on Google's interface. Pitfalls to avoid and such.
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The road to total nuclear power:
The last battleground and current battle ground for decades, where to bury the waste from Nuclear Power. Nimbys are the log-jam there. Just find the place with the weakest resistance and bury it there. There's hardly anyone in North Dakota, so that state should be a push-over.
Don't anybody even suggest raising rates to reduce consumption, that's anti-progress!
An angry, irrational response from a Microsoft Fanboi. Why else post as AC?
I'm hard pressed to, though I'm certain they have some somewhere. Typically Microsoft, as a corporate strategy, wait for something successful to emerge, then copy it. A company needs to grow, but Microsoft seem to see themselves as the end-all be-all, grow into markets which have only the most tenuous connection to their core products.
The point you missed in your tirade is this: Microsoft is again off on another front to compete with products which do something not connected to any operating system, though provide services on the internet, core to a business. Microsoft should leave these to companies which focus on them, work with the companies and to function in ways Microsoft may consider beneficial, but leave the burden of the business to those companies. Microsoft is like some octopus which grows arms as it sees each need and has now become so cumbersome it can't take care of job number one, which is create an operating system.
Is this this same strategy which has brought us massive code bloat at the cost of random number security?
One of these days, someone is going to come up with an April Fools 'Virtual Wombat Herding' and Microsoft will "innovate" their own incarnation as it will be seen as a vital extension of its current desktop technology and won't they look the silly buggers.
Must be Paul McCartney's road, it's bloody long and winding and leads to your fecking door!
Perhaps they should just use a fingerprint analyser ...
And those who look far younger than they are. I recall an embarrassing gaffe where a friend of a friend offered to drive us to some store. He nipped into the house and emerged with the keys, started the car and away we went. I asked if his mom knew he drove her car. Ooops. He was 18 and it was his car, though he looked for the world like he was 13.
... breeds a better mouse. Ronny to the rescue.*
And if that doesn't work, they'll figure out, yet, how to beat the machine, keeping the mask warm under shirt if it's looking for IR. Eventually this will inconvenience smokers.
*Remember, Nancy says, "Just Say No!"
This generally happens because I have so many tabs/windows open I can't tell them apart and hit the close widget I think I mean. Perhaps unique colours for each tab or window header?
I began noticing this with Windows 95. The bastards said it would run in 4MB of memory. Technically it would, if you only ever wanted to start it up. (12MB was the bare minimum to run some modest apps without paging.) I admined a Dec PDP 11/45 and learned a lot about tuning a system for performance. When you had 256 KB of memory, 2 88MB HDDs, a 4 MB core memory swap disk (anyone ever see a Megastore? :) and had to shared nicely among as many as 40 users at a time, you learned how to get the most out of it. Seems the approach these days is: Throw more money at it. Buy more RAM, bigger HDD, upgrade (why do Windows upgrades always require tonnes more RAM?), faster CPU, etc. Performance tuning at Microsoft seems blasphemy.
Beta Wish #0.9: All those cheapskates out there still running on Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Win 2K, Win NT, Win ME and Win XP upgrade and throw more money at us.
Is this a unique feature to Vista? I don't recall having that option on XP
Speaking of which, why does Windows still use a variable sized swap file? I lock it down to 2x RAM or 4GB. Whichever is larger. I do not want fragmentation in the swap file. I'd prefer not to need one, but that's another story.This is indeed a mystery. Even back in the 1970's you could designate a device to use for the swap file and it was pre-extended. You even had the option to place it on the middle cylinders of a disk so it was, on average, faster to access.
Quick! Where's the Open Source PH meter?!?
...and the first person to add "make it work better than Mac OS X 10.5" is FIRED!And another chair hits the wall! I should have stock in Herman Miller.
Oh, but they will find some way to tell you it does!
"Windows7 - Sales up 27% over Windows Vista among one-legged, blind, ambisexual, vegetarian, wombat herders born under a full moon in a month with an R in it"
I'd like to see the option on boot "Load a lot of libraries you probably will never use, but will take up half your system memory, on start-up (Y/N)
Back up XBOX 360 games to Windows PC - Ain't gonna happen
New PIP functionality for Media Center - PIP *.WMA/L
Infinite desktop, virtual desktop idea - Maybe they could port fvwm
Option to "Reopen Closed tabs" in IE - This will be addressed via "Are you sure you want to close this tab?"
Auto clean of Temp folders - How about including a way to define which are temp folders.
How about fixing the paging to use it's own partition, ffs!
Seriously. It's a one two comedy punch. If they can't do a secure random number generator, that calls into question the whole damn operating system.
Perhaps it was the Randumb generator they included.
I'm certain they will queue up in France for each buyer in turn to say, "moux."
Have they had their Filboid Studge?
Flood the internet with grabage
Oh, wait, spammers, worms and bots are already doing this.
So last year around Christmas I break down and finally buy an iPod. There's pallets of iPods and they're moving, by the looks of it. There's also a pallet of Zunes. Looks like they've sold about 5 players.
Making a deal with CostCo to sell your stuff doesn't mean people will buy it.
Reminds me of silly timewasting things a co-worker used to do: punch stuff in, translate to another language, then translate back. Then he'd laugh his head off at it. Generally, to be that silly, I require considerable sleep deprivation.
Just occurred to me I know one of the researchers at Google who has spent a considerable amount of time on the study of mobile phone interfaces. I expect his work will have some influence on Google's interface. Pitfalls to avoid and such.