I think you underestimate how lazy and uninterested non enthusiasts are. And let's be clear, they comprise the majority of the home market (and the closer someone is to being an enthusiast, the less likely they are to get confused by the situation).
I'm not real sure that it comes from one concept/area illuminating the other, I think the interest and drive to understand what is going on, regardless of the context, is probably at work.
I guess magical thinking might make it quite a lot more difficult to understand things at the lower level though than at the higher level (because part of being higher level is not worrying about each detail).
So the sad part is that 4 people spent time dealing with an issue that might have saved $20 if you had successfully managed to maintain control of your fiefdom?
Are you talking about Apple and Google? I think you probably are, because they were both mentioned in the comment I replied to and part of the reason that I said "I'm not sure that being able to pay dozens of developers is enough to keep up, but it probably helps."
I wasn't saying rah rah Firefox rah, I was pointing out that "essentially a community effort" is a ridiculous characterization of Mozilla, which is actually a well funded (from their operations, not community donations) not-for-profit.
There are massive corporate installs of IE6, and if IE7 is auto-updated to IE8, it hasn't happened to me yet. It carries a glorious citation needed tag, but Wikipedia says that IE6 still has almost a 20% share:
Even if you assume that the real world is composed of IE8 and FF3, ACID3 is still irrelevant to web developers and browser users (but it has worked quite well as a fun game for web browser developers).
Updating the Bluetooth software on my laptop fixed a bunch of issues I was having with my mouse (I didn't install any extra drivers, the stack was just flaky).
After that, everything was great (not having an extra thing to deal with is nice) until the switches on the mouse started to fail (Logitech V270).
Actually, I assumed that you didn't notice it for some reason or another; maybe you don't usually use Explorer or whatever. There is also some chance that I clicked some setting somewhere or whatever, I don't remember. Or it could be something that works on XP Pro and not on what you are using (but maybe you are using XP Pro).
Just to be clear, I only see the option when there is media with an autorun.inf file in the drive.
ACID3 doesn't really impact anything, nor does ACID2, as developers (that cater to the general market) still need to target some mix of Firefox 2 and IE 6/7 anyway.
If you want to leave old people hanging, "cashing out" would net everyone $0. If you don't want to do that, "cashing out" would cost thousands of dollars per person.
The 4% is based, at best, on incredibly thin numbers from Mexico (thin in the sense that there isn't much information about the actual number of infected patients, meaning that the denominator isn't very useful).
As of this morning, there were 91 confirmed cases in the United States:
The WHO has similar information for worldwide cases (the numbers coming out of the media for Mexico are much higher than the WHO report for confirmed cases, 150+ deaths, with hundreds infected):
Governments were already happily buying essentially all of the Tamiflu that Roche can make (and a media circus probably increases the likelihood of a drug resistant pool of virus developing).
The pork thing is unfortunate, but there is a lot of risk with a novel flu virus, so a strong reaction is the prudent thing (when the lethality picture clears up, things can relax pretty quickly).
For organizations like the CDC and WHO, having well thought out, staged plans makes quite a bit of sense (and simplifies communication).
If they have those stages, they are going to leak to the media and be reported, so they might as well just announce them and try to put out some information about what they mean.
If you open up "My Computer" in Windows Explorer and right click on a media with Autorun or Autoplay features, the relevant feature should show up as an option (Just now I am testing Autoplay, which I have turned off; it does turn up as an option).
I think that works for "only if and only fucking well when you explicitly tell it to".
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Getting it botoxed would probably work just fine. Ask a doctor.
Killing yourself to "go someplace better" doesn't really count as desertion.
I think you underestimate how lazy and uninterested non enthusiasts are. And let's be clear, they comprise the majority of the home market (and the closer someone is to being an enthusiast, the less likely they are to get confused by the situation).
So the garage is poorly designed and built?
I'm not real sure where this is going.
I'm not real sure that it comes from one concept/area illuminating the other, I think the interest and drive to understand what is going on, regardless of the context, is probably at work.
I guess magical thinking might make it quite a lot more difficult to understand things at the lower level though than at the higher level (because part of being higher level is not worrying about each detail).
Making an ontopic post anywhere in the story should have the same effect, unless they have quietly changed things.
So the sad part is that 4 people spent time dealing with an issue that might have saved $20 if you had successfully managed to maintain control of your fiefdom?
Are you talking about Apple and Google? I think you probably are, because they were both mentioned in the comment I replied to and part of the reason that I said "I'm not sure that being able to pay dozens of developers is enough to keep up, but it probably helps."
I wasn't saying rah rah Firefox rah, I was pointing out that "essentially a community effort" is a ridiculous characterization of Mozilla, which is actually a well funded (from their operations, not community donations) not-for-profit.
There are massive corporate installs of IE6, and if IE7 is auto-updated to IE8, it hasn't happened to me yet. It carries a glorious citation needed tag, but Wikipedia says that IE6 still has almost a 20% share:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Market_adoption_and_usage_share
Firefox 2 does appear to be nearly irrelevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Market_adoption
Even if you assume that the real world is composed of IE8 and FF3, ACID3 is still irrelevant to web developers and browser users (but it has worked quite well as a fun game for web browser developers).
Updating the Bluetooth software on my laptop fixed a bunch of issues I was having with my mouse (I didn't install any extra drivers, the stack was just flaky).
After that, everything was great (not having an extra thing to deal with is nice) until the switches on the mouse started to fail (Logitech V270).
Actually, I assumed that you didn't notice it for some reason or another; maybe you don't usually use Explorer or whatever. There is also some chance that I clicked some setting somewhere or whatever, I don't remember. Or it could be something that works on XP Pro and not on what you are using (but maybe you are using XP Pro).
Just to be clear, I only see the option when there is media with an autorun.inf file in the drive.
ACID3 doesn't really impact anything, nor does ACID2, as developers (that cater to the general market) still need to target some mix of Firefox 2 and IE 6/7 anyway.
If you want to leave old people hanging, "cashing out" would net everyone $0. If you don't want to do that, "cashing out" would cost thousands of dollars per person.
Firefox is "essentially a community effort" with tens of millions of dollars of income.
I'm not sure that being able to pay dozens of developers is enough to keep up, but it probably helps.
That's some good work doom. If I had any say in it, you'd get a promotion.
The 4% is based, at best, on incredibly thin numbers from Mexico (thin in the sense that there isn't much information about the actual number of infected patients, meaning that the denominator isn't very useful).
As of this morning, there were 91 confirmed cases in the United States:
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/index.htm
The WHO has similar information for worldwide cases (the numbers coming out of the media for Mexico are much higher than the WHO report for confirmed cases, 150+ deaths, with hundreds infected):
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/entity/csr/don/2009_04_29/en/index.html
1 Time Warner AOL merger of negative shareholder value is worth 14.3 Carly Fiorinas.
Governments were already happily buying essentially all of the Tamiflu that Roche can make (and a media circus probably increases the likelihood of a drug resistant pool of virus developing).
1 U.S. death. A child from Mexico.
The pork thing is unfortunate, but there is a lot of risk with a novel flu virus, so a strong reaction is the prudent thing (when the lethality picture clears up, things can relax pretty quickly).
That doesn't say cytokine storm, which is the interesting part of the question.
Mmmmmh. Trichinosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
(Actually not that likely and not that deadly, but still not that awesome)
For organizations like the CDC and WHO, having well thought out, staged plans makes quite a bit of sense (and simplifies communication).
If they have those stages, they are going to leak to the media and be reported, so they might as well just announce them and try to put out some information about what they mean.
GP likely meant a reputable source stating that this outbreak was killing by way of a cytokine storm.
No five pages?
If you open up "My Computer" in Windows Explorer and right click on a media with Autorun or Autoplay features, the relevant feature should show up as an option (Just now I am testing Autoplay, which I have turned off; it does turn up as an option).
I think that works for "only if and only fucking well when you explicitly tell it to".