The only feature I use regularly in gnome 3, unity, and win 7, is the app search bound to the super key. It accomplishes basically everything that I need from an OS GUI in all three. Once you throw in good alt-tab and window resizing/splitting too (which they all do well too) I'm all set.
That's my plan, though I've yet to take the plunge and buy one yet. I really don't want to be tied to yet another mobile contract for a tablet, and my phone supports both WiFi and USB tethering out of the box. So, I plan to buy a WiFi tablet, and if I ever find myself using it on the road, I'll tether it up.
More specifically, my main issue with the OP's point is that the movie's anthropomorphization of the computer's inner workings is too obviously inaccurate -- anyone who knows anything about computers can easily see that it's just a thin sheen of technobabble hastily thrown on top of a standard action movie. Props to the guy they got to do the UNIX commands in the real life scenes, but other than that, the tech stuff was so out of this world that it left none of what good sci-fi needs to engage the viewer -- that thin line of plausibility and the possibility that our world could really become like the one in the movie one day.
And that's where A Standout Store Experience comes in, if you're only willing to stick it out and read the last quarter of the sentence. Small stores need to have helpful, knowledgeable staff and excellent customer service; enough so to engender extreme customer loyalty.
The way I see it, the issue is OS rev fragmentation, moreso than hardware. Imagine if Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP all came out 6 months apart, with Vista slated to launch next month and 7 in the spring, and 50% of computers shipping today had 98 installed, and no support for higher versions.
Related is the carriers' insistence on adding a layer on top of android to make it their own, which just delays the release, meaning by the time they're done the next OS version is out.
I do this. The only hard part is the initial patching of the aTV to turn on ssh, though that may have gotten easier since I first did it a year ago.
I use it to watch downloaded stuff like Make: Television and to stream from Hulu. Works pretty damn well, and the NFS and SMB support is much better than the previously best apps like aTVFiles and others.
I don't know if anyone said that it's fine for an atheist, but I'd imagine as outsiders to religion, most atheists would be able to balance this better than most evangelicals.
I agree. Golden plates aren't that bad. But Mormons ARE crazy. And if you want to call out Mormon craziness, you really have to look no further than their magic underpants.
First, every major problem needs a good publicist to expose it properly; this can be a job in and of itself and Bruce does a good job of it. Second, he runs a company that sells solutions to these problems as well; contract him out to fix them for you and see how he does before you criticize him on that front.
Except that they do this because manufacturing chips is not an exact science -- some turn out better than others, and these are able to handle higher clock speeds with less chance of failure and less power usage. Thus, the quality of each individual chip determines its clock speed and its price. While the enthusiast will always be able to increase that with no problem 90% of the time, that's quite a different thing from selling a chip that's supposed to be turned up. These would need to be good enough to handle the heavier usage from any user at all, and fully supported all the while.
1. Kick off investigations of the crimes of the Bush administration. 2. Scale down our forgein military presence (not quite to the extent Paul wants to, but significantly). 3. Do everything in my power to get all of the unconstitutional legislation that has been passed in the last few years repealed (Patriot Act, MCA, etc). 4. Balance the budget. I would lay down absolute ultimatums that government programs justify their existence and their tax cost to the American people, and cut anything that's not convincing. Maybe I'd even call for a vote on what programs get to stay. We would have to leave taxes at close to current for a few years and pay off our debt, though, I'm afraid. 5. Not overstep the bounds of my office with signing statements, etc.
Identity theft isn't the theft of identifying information, it's impersonating someone else for personal gain, usually at the impersonated person's loss. A prerequisite to this is often acquiring personal information, likely through theft or grayer methods such as dumpster diving, but as this case shows, not always.
I'd say this is more like McDonald's, as a partner in the homeless shelter organization, trying to tear down one of the homeless shelters in order to build a McDonald's location there instead.
Well, you may be technically correct, but if you're not in a big open-source discussion anyway, no-one's really interested in what distro you're running. Just saying you run linux is enough. You were one of those people who always had to tack -compatible onto IBM when asked what type of computer hardware you had back in the 90s, weren't you? Or did you go so far as to give everyone your full system specs?
I do agree though, that in discussions like this the distinction has to be made clearer. The author of TFA has definitely mucked it up in his head.
I agree with you, but there's one point you're mistaken on: These machines don't dispense physical cash or coin anymore; they print a ticket that indicates an amount on it, which is machine readable, and which you can then insert into other games, or cash out at the cashier.
I can't speak to the rest of the hardware, but the CPU is at least. Indeed, the C7 is rated at 20W, whereas your average laptop Intel or AMD chips is around 35W nowadays, and most desktop CPUs at 65W or more.
I do suspect that you're partially right, however; had this computer been released two years ago with the same specs, they probably would have left "eco-friendly" off of the features list. That doesn't mean it's not true, though.
"but a higher gun / owner ratio evidently leads to more gun related violence"
If you are going to make this argument, 'well obviously' is not good enough supporting evidence. Please cite some actual case studies. Oh, here, I found one for you: Kennesaw, GA.
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The only feature I use regularly in gnome 3, unity, and win 7, is the app search bound to the super key. It accomplishes basically everything that I need from an OS GUI in all three. Once you throw in good alt-tab and window resizing/splitting too (which they all do well too) I'm all set.
That's my plan, though I've yet to take the plunge and buy one yet. I really don't want to be tied to yet another mobile contract for a tablet, and my phone supports both WiFi and USB tethering out of the box. So, I plan to buy a WiFi tablet, and if I ever find myself using it on the road, I'll tether it up.
More specifically, my main issue with the OP's point is that the movie's anthropomorphization of the computer's inner workings is too obviously inaccurate -- anyone who knows anything about computers can easily see that it's just a thin sheen of technobabble hastily thrown on top of a standard action movie. Props to the guy they got to do the UNIX commands in the real life scenes, but other than that, the tech stuff was so out of this world that it left none of what good sci-fi needs to engage the viewer -- that thin line of plausibility and the possibility that our world could really become like the one in the movie one day.
And that's where A Standout Store Experience comes in, if you're only willing to stick it out and read the last quarter of the sentence. Small stores need to have helpful, knowledgeable staff and excellent customer service; enough so to engender extreme customer loyalty.
The way I see it, the issue is OS rev fragmentation, moreso than hardware. Imagine if Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP all came out 6 months apart, with Vista slated to launch next month and 7 in the spring, and 50% of computers shipping today had 98 installed, and no support for higher versions.
Related is the carriers' insistence on adding a layer on top of android to make it their own, which just delays the release, meaning by the time they're done the next OS version is out.
While we're being pedants here, the UK isn't an island either.
Or are you one of those people who doesn't understand the difference between the UK and Great Britain?
"You know Greg, this obituary reading business is getting rather dull. Let's go make some more interesting ones."
Millions of Ubuntu users question the relevance of Red Hat on the desktop.
I do this. The only hard part is the initial patching of the aTV to turn on ssh, though that may have gotten easier since I first did it a year ago.
I use it to watch downloaded stuff like Make: Television and to stream from Hulu. Works pretty damn well, and the NFS and SMB support is much better than the previously best apps like aTVFiles and others.
'Bandwidth hogs' are currently paying a flat-rate price for unlimited usage, which is exactly what the companies claim to be selling.
I'm gonna link you to another comment above, which spells it out perfectly:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=441220&cid=22292144
I don't know if anyone said that it's fine for an atheist, but I'd imagine as outsiders to religion, most atheists would be able to balance this better than most evangelicals.
I agree. Golden plates aren't that bad. But Mormons ARE crazy. And if you want to call out Mormon craziness, you really have to look no further than their magic underpants.
First, every major problem needs a good publicist to expose it properly; this can be a job in and of itself and Bruce does a good job of it.
Second, he runs a company that sells solutions to these problems as well; contract him out to fix them for you and see how he does before you criticize him on that front.
Except that they do this because manufacturing chips is not an exact science -- some turn out better than others, and these are able to handle higher clock speeds with less chance of failure and less power usage. Thus, the quality of each individual chip determines its clock speed and its price. While the enthusiast will always be able to increase that with no problem 90% of the time, that's quite a different thing from selling a chip that's supposed to be turned up. These would need to be good enough to handle the heavier usage from any user at all, and fully supported all the while.
1. Kick off investigations of the crimes of the Bush administration.
2. Scale down our forgein military presence (not quite to the extent Paul wants to, but significantly).
3. Do everything in my power to get all of the unconstitutional legislation that has been passed in the last few years repealed (Patriot Act, MCA, etc).
4. Balance the budget. I would lay down absolute ultimatums that government programs justify their existence and their tax cost to the American people, and cut anything that's not convincing. Maybe I'd even call for a vote on what programs get to stay. We would have to leave taxes at close to current for a few years and pay off our debt, though, I'm afraid.
5. Not overstep the bounds of my office with signing statements, etc.
Identity theft isn't the theft of identifying information, it's impersonating someone else for personal gain, usually at the impersonated person's loss. A prerequisite to this is often acquiring personal information, likely through theft or grayer methods such as dumpster diving, but as this case shows, not always.
That's an easy one: it would be a felony to coerce someone into giving you their serial number.
I'd say this is more like McDonald's, as a partner in the homeless shelter organization, trying to tear down one of the homeless shelters in order to build a McDonald's location there instead.
If you would have RTFFT, you'd know that the install script output looked like this:
Output folder: C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE
Delete file: \boot.ini
Extract: boot.ini... 100%
Which indicates the problem: someone fat-fingered the path of the file to be deleted and QA likely didn't test the final version of the installer.
Well, you may be technically correct, but if you're not in a big open-source discussion anyway, no-one's really interested in what distro you're running. Just saying you run linux is enough. You were one of those people who always had to tack -compatible onto IBM when asked what type of computer hardware you had back in the 90s, weren't you? Or did you go so far as to give everyone your full system specs?
I do agree though, that in discussions like this the distinction has to be made clearer. The author of TFA has definitely mucked it up in his head.
Which is why all new development will be added to the uTorrent tree (which has always been closed source), not to the historical bittorrent tree.
I agree with you, but there's one point you're mistaken on: These machines don't dispense physical cash or coin anymore; they print a ticket that indicates an amount on it, which is machine readable, and which you can then insert into other games, or cash out at the cashier.
I can't speak to the rest of the hardware, but the CPU is at least. Indeed, the C7 is rated at 20W, whereas your average laptop Intel or AMD chips is around 35W nowadays, and most desktop CPUs at 65W or more.
I do suspect that you're partially right, however; had this computer been released two years ago with the same specs, they probably would have left "eco-friendly" off of the features list. That doesn't mean it's not true, though.
"but a higher gun / owner ratio evidently leads to more gun related violence"
If you are going to make this argument, 'well obviously' is not good enough supporting evidence. Please cite some actual case studies. Oh, here, I found one for you: Kennesaw, GA.
With a simple RTFA we reveal that the what you suggest is exactly what they're doing!