According to Upton Sinclair, The Jungle was about socialism and wage slavery, not corruption and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking business. Still doesn't change how it was received by EVERYONE else, or how it led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Map legend for non-rocket scientists:
HTP == High Test Peroxide, a high percentage Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) solution.
ISP == Isp == Specific Impulse, basically MPG for rockets.
LOX == LOx == Liquid Oxygen, not smoked salmon.
RP1 == RP-1 == Rocket Propellant 1, a highly refined kerosene used as a rocket fuel.
I don't think you're being fair. Microsoft has fixed more security holes than all the other software companies on the planet combined. And I have every faith that they will continue to fix thousands and thousands of security holes every year for a long, long time to come.
The malware authors are ALWAYS going to "raise their game to a new level" - it's an arms race, plain and simple. What's at issue is that one side doesn't fucking care that they're in one, and their responses are always reactive/responsive and half-assed.
I think you're ignoring the massive power savings associated with the "unmanned" part. Consider: no lights, no air, hence no air heating/cooling nor fans, no human readable displays or control systems, everything on standby/power down unless actually in use, etc.
But soft, what light through yonder Linux breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the Oracle(TM).
Arise, fair Oracle(TM), and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she
Of course they're related. All the drag-and-drop GUI functionality in the IDE is based on the API, as are the documentation and libraries, and (typically) the ONLY way to use new features in the WinAPI in a timely manner is to use use the Microsoft tools and do things the Microsoft way. And, of course, once you start a project in Visual Studio, you can never get it OUT of Visual Studio. And $DEITY help you if you get a new development box and have to migrate old projects onto it.
If Microsoft is so bad then why the hell there isn't better open source versions of these things??
Because Microsoft controls the APIs and can release new versions of Visual Studio simultaneously with the new releases of Windows? Because anybody who wants to do an open IDE for Windows has to wade through the craptastic Microsoft documentation to be a year behind the curve, right about time for the next set of API changes?
Oh, I don't know. Reading the summary and wondering how the fuck this question made it to Slashdot's front page made me drool and bash my head on the keyboard.
Srsly. A clear watch case with lots of exposed gears, (or maybe a red laser beam mounted next to my right eye) would look WAY cooler than a dumb old iPod.
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Why do you call government intervention in the free market an "incredible benefit"? Why do you hate America?
According to Upton Sinclair, The Jungle was about socialism and wage slavery, not corruption and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking business. Still doesn't change how it was received by EVERYONE else, or how it led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Thank you; that was a huge LOL.
Map legend for non-rocket scientists:
HTP == High Test Peroxide, a high percentage Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) solution.
ISP == Isp == Specific Impulse, basically MPG for rockets.
LOX == LOx == Liquid Oxygen, not smoked salmon.
RP1 == RP-1 == Rocket Propellant 1, a highly refined kerosene used as a rocket fuel.
Damn. I knew I should have used a "/sarcasm" tag.
I don't think you're being fair. Microsoft has fixed more security holes than all the other software companies on the planet combined. And I have every faith that they will continue to fix thousands and thousands of security holes every year for a long, long time to come.
The malware authors are ALWAYS going to "raise their game to a new level" - it's an arms race, plain and simple. What's at issue is that one side doesn't fucking care that they're in one, and their responses are always reactive/responsive and half-assed.
I think you're ignoring the massive power savings associated with the "unmanned" part. Consider: no lights, no air, hence no air heating/cooling nor fans, no human readable displays or control systems, everything on standby/power down unless actually in use, etc.
The other day, I posted a reference to Time Cube, and there were people with reasonably low IDs who hadn't heard of it.
I CAN HAS LANDING CLEERANS?
I can just picture explaining to my wife that she has to unplug the refridgerator before she can turn on her haid dryer.
It's hard to beat Time Cube for sheer WTF??!!?? batshit crazy...
The reason Romney is so under-represented is that "Romney" is actually more vanilla than "Linksys".
My favorite is "GetOffMyLAN!".
The Washington Post is also quoting "current and former U.S. officials", speaking on condition of anonymity, as saying so.
But soft, what light through yonder Linux breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the Oracle(TM).
Arise, fair Oracle(TM), and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she
It issues press releases that say "everything is under control, nothing to see here, move along". When pressed, it says "what radiation?".
Of course they're related. All the drag-and-drop GUI functionality in the IDE is based on the API, as are the documentation and libraries, and (typically) the ONLY way to use new features in the WinAPI in a timely manner is to use use the Microsoft tools and do things the Microsoft way. And, of course, once you start a project in Visual Studio, you can never get it OUT of Visual Studio. And $DEITY help you if you get a new development box and have to migrate old projects onto it.
Because Microsoft controls the APIs and can release new versions of Visual Studio simultaneously with the new releases of Windows? Because anybody who wants to do an open IDE for Windows has to wade through the craptastic Microsoft documentation to be a year behind the curve, right about time for the next set of API changes?
By all means, hire strangers who get paid in advance and have no personal stake in the outcome.
Who fights harder, people whose country is being invaded, or the mercenaries doing the invading?
Oh, I don't know. Reading the summary and wondering how the fuck this question made it to Slashdot's front page made me drool and bash my head on the keyboard.
Srsly. A clear watch case with lots of exposed gears, (or maybe a red laser beam mounted next to my right eye) would look WAY cooler than a dumb old iPod.
Fuck hemoglobin, I want to know how the implanted rare earth magnets might effect my iPod.
The riff was on the "CCCP" part.
In Soviet Russia...