The White House cares because they (Obama) would take the blame for more Nanny Government. Besides, let's face it, posting calorie information for movie theater popcorn is the height of silliness.
This is incredible technology. Wouldn't you love to have some checkboxes to turn on/off: state borders, topography, jet stream, hi/lo pressure systems, time display...
'Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster. They're more like tape. Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction, it's getting faster,' said Mark Lemmons, CTO of Thought Equity Motion, a cloud storage service...
Hmmmm, sounds as if you're selling something...
1) Big drives are still random access, tape isn't.
2) Faster moving tape is more prone to catastrophic breakage than slower moving tape. (Although both are way more prone to The Bad Thing (TM) than disk drives are.
3) Azimuth alignment between ostensibly "identical" tape drives -- hilarity ensues.
4) Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Microsoft dominated computers for a generation because they were (almost) the only game in town. Businesses bought Windows for people's work machines, and people were largely unwilling to pay a premium for their home machines to do things completely differently than they did at work. Phones (and MP3 players) however, don't have a "learning curve", and are much much more of a fashion statement than a computer. For the very reason Microsoft is ubiquitous in the office, they're not going to be ubiquitous on phones. Car/shoe analogy: busses and boots all look alike, cars and shoes are all different. So, if you want to drive a bus/wear boots/use a Microsoft phone, go right ahead, just don't expect anyone to think you're hip.
Is any of the above true? Can a non-AC Belgian confirm? This is mind-boggling. These assholes sound worse than the BSA - and I didn't think that was possible.
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The White House cares because they (Obama) would take the blame for more Nanny Government. Besides, let's face it, posting calorie information for movie theater popcorn is the height of silliness.
This is incredible technology. Wouldn't you love to have some checkboxes to turn on/off: state borders, topography, jet stream, hi/lo pressure systems, time display...
Because Peter Cushing and Chritopher Lee are British. Precedent wins.
Tell that to Galileo. Or Copernicus. Or Einstein, for that matter.
So if I say "Hmm, sounds like my ex-wife" it's Funny, but if I point out the meta-joke, it's Offtopic?
Krebs is now returning 404 Page Not Found - although their home page has the same link, also returning 404.
-> insert ex-wife joke here <-
Hmmmm, sounds as if you're selling something...
1) Big drives are still random access, tape isn't.
2) Faster moving tape is more prone to catastrophic breakage than slower moving tape. (Although both are way more prone to The Bad Thing (TM) than disk drives are.
3) Azimuth alignment between ostensibly "identical" tape drives -- hilarity ensues.
4) Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
So, still using ISS, then?
You're confusing "you're" and "your", as long as we're being pedantic ;-)
It's hell to get old, isn't it?
It wasn't the sound of a mimeograph machine, it was the SMELL of a new math or history test -- with purple ink.
Grandparent is misusing the word "theory" in exactly the same way the creationists do. Hint: is isn't synonymous with "notion" or "hypothesis".
I'm reminded of the Vietnam era 'It became necessary to destroy the town [in order to] to save it'.
Microsoft dominated computers for a generation because they were (almost) the only game in town. Businesses bought Windows for people's work machines, and people were largely unwilling to pay a premium for their home machines to do things completely differently than they did at work. Phones (and MP3 players) however, don't have a "learning curve", and are much much more of a fashion statement than a computer. For the very reason Microsoft is ubiquitous in the office, they're not going to be ubiquitous on phones. Car/shoe analogy: busses and boots all look alike, cars and shoes are all different. So, if you want to drive a bus/wear boots/use a Microsoft phone, go right ahead, just don't expect anyone to think you're hip.
Is any of the above true? Can a non-AC Belgian confirm? This is mind-boggling. These assholes sound worse than the BSA - and I didn't think that was possible.
DUH! When Netcraft confirms it.
Or until you start working on some particularly bad legacy code and *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* ensues.
My wife has been throwing wet blankets on everything for years.
I'd like to know more.
Anybody (journalists) who thinks oxygen == life has completely misinterpreted James Lovelock.
Because someone could use them to override the security protocols, obviously.
It's 43 on Leap Day.
Best. Car Analogy. evar.
He's also on Double Secret Probation.