And the poor got poorer. Nothing new to see here, move along.
It's criminal, though isn't it? Millions of people are out of work, thousands are losing their homes, a majority of Americans have so little in savings that a single illness can put them over the edge into poverty, and yet, all these guys, despite a huge recession, saw their fortunes go UP.
Macross Plus stole that concept from Megazone 23, which in turn borrowed it from the original Macross.
Megazone 23 was created out of thrown away plot ideas from the 1984 Macross Movie (Do You Remember Love?) -- one of the concepts was that Lynn Minmay would have been killed or captured, but to keep the populace under control, a computer-generated version of her would continue to perform on videoscreens.
That became the Eve character in Megazone 23, who was nothing but a computer generated performance, part of the "Bread and Circuses" required to keep the populace from guessing the truth -- that they are not in the 20th century on Earth, but inside a large spaceship, far from home, fighting an on-going war.
The contents of this post have been removed because they *might* harm some company's profit margin, and we know that in the USA, corporations are WAAAAY more important than people.
Searching a subfolder inside your inbox still doesn't work (it will find items but you can't open them), It has the must unusual ideas about drag and drop attachments (sometimes it just attaches a GIF icon, but not the document itself), And my favorite, it will randomly exit with an error (an error has occured, would you like to send a report?), when right clicking selected text to change the typeface...
Outlook 2003 was a miracle of speed and stability compared to 2007, so I imagine that, given their reputation to build worse and worse products over time, Outlook 2010 will be a disaster of titanic proportions. With a slew of "features" no one ever wanted or needed.
Have Jeff Bezos arrested and extridited to Florida.
Watch as Florida looks like the complete dipshits they are when routers across the country refuse to recognize any IP within the state of Florida. Let's see how well Floridians do without the internet.
Great firewall of China? Ha! They ain't seen nothin yet!
Have you ever seen Americans drive? It's exactly the same thing.
They get in their cars, stomp on the gas, accelerate onto the highway, cut each other off, and then all come headlong into a dead stop a minute later, so they can gawk at some guy changing his tire.
If they instead travelled at constant speed, they'd get to their destinations faster, but because of their driving habits, it takes longer to get from A to B -- because they go like a bat out of hell for a few minutes and then crawl around every accident or for every bit of precipitation.
--- If I, suddenly decided, that every, second word, should be, separated by, commas then, it would, make this, sentence much, tougher to, use and, understand right? ---
Perhaps you're just trying to sound like William Shatner?
There's a brilliant demonstration of this system in the first 30 minutes of the movie ROBOCOP. As you can see, the terrorist was correctly identified and eliminated as a threat. There were no glitches or errors of any kind and the project was a complete success.
When a local disaster occurs, and there's a blackout, people relied on battery powered TVs to get local information on what's happening. We seem to be moving away from tried and true technologies and into the realm of crappy, bug-ridden, oversold technologies that don't work when something bad happens.
Well, maybe when rich, white people start dying they'll change things, but when poor black people die, it's not a big issue for these companies.
As someone who worked with AT&T's marketeers during that time of ISDN development, the internal name for ISDN was "It Still Does Nothing", and I'm afraid that, 20 yrs later, that name continues to hold true.
After a bunch of greedy bankers nearly ruined the economy, he loaned them OUR MONEY (US Taxpayer dollars) at 0% interest, so they could loan it to back to us (US Taxpayers) at 20% interest.
Except they didn't. They used that money to pay off other internal loans or loans to other banks (such as Goldman Sachs). And we got a great big wet kiss off. Instead, the banks hit us with more fees, higher interest rates on credit cards and loans, all while cutting interest on CDs, savings accounts and everything else.
Oh, and those greedy bankers? They are still running those banks, and they are pocketing millions in bonuses.
In fact, they have figured out that they can say FU to all of America, and keep operating. That's why you can't find a job, but they are reporting record profits.
The banking system should have failed. If America can go to China and borrow money from them to prop up banks, then the banks were fully capable of going to China on their own and begging for money. But they wouldn't do that, because they know the Chinese would have just bought the banks and controlled them.
So, the US should have let the Banks fail and then socialized the whole damn thing. If the US government can loan AIG billions of dollars at 0% interest, why can't I get the same sweetheart deal for $50k? In fact, wouldn't it have been cheaper for the government to just buy everyone's house in the USA? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy all the bad debt? Instead, what we got was a bailout of bad companies with all their associated on-going expenses, with no change of their behavior. So, we're telling them it's OK to do it all over again, and ruin the country, because when you get greedy again, we'll just bail you out again.
Really, is that the system you desire? While it would have been severe hardship in the short-term, all you're doing is putting off the inevitable. We'd really have been better off in the long-term if the country had fallen into anarchy, we'd had riots in the streets and bankers faced the guilotine.
The system we're in now doesn't change a thing, and there's nothing in place to prevent it from happening again.
Okay, let's see if I've got this straight... #1) Google will SUBSIDIZE the cost of the netbook (aka NetPC, which was hacked out of existence). #2) Unlike NetPC, they won't be using an intel processor, locking out Windows.
--- so when joey or jane try to download and install their favorite game or chat client, it will fail.
--- so when grandma can't load in her quickbooks document for the church, it will fail. #3) As someone who has lurked in many a netbook forum, I can tell you the number one question will be "How do I install Windows XP on it?" #4) Someone will figure out how to install alternative OSes on it, maybe even write some kind of intel CPU emulator, or real-time recompiler, and then hack Windows into running on it, and then the lawsuits begin. #5) As soon as people get bored with it, into the trash heap it goes.
Google will lose money on this deal. Chrome will not take hold, in fact, most early adopters will be spending their time trying to get Chrome off of it. When the masses get it they will be disappointed by it's lack of backwards compatibility, and start searching (ironically using Google) for websites to show them how to "jailbreak" the thing into running what they want. Adblocker apps will appear as will other hacks to thwart Google, so people can feel they got a "free netbook".
When the last Beetle rolled off the assembly line, all the tooling was sold to China. Now the Chinese stamp out parts for Beetles. I can pull out the Mid America Motorworks catalog and essentially order enough pieces to build a beetle from the ground up. All I need (which can't be ordered) is the center-tube, which is essentially "the frame", but all other pieces are avialable.
What's the bet that all the tooling for this engine will be sold to China, and China will make the engine, but only as parts. So, you'll be able to buy all the pieces and assemble the engine yourself.
Never mind the big rock falling out of the sky. Never mind global warming. Never mind peak oil. Never mind growing hostility between various nuclear powers. Never mind the USA's enormous mind-numbing debt. THIS is what's going to kill us all, and I for one, welcome our new volcanic overlords.
We were "upgraded" to Outlook 2007, and were previously using 2003. Aside from Outlook 2007 running at half speed versus 2003, it is littered with enormous bugs.
Here's a sample: BUG #1) OUTLOOK FAILS TO PASTE FROM PREVIEWED ATTACHMENT
Steps to reproduce BUG: Step ONE: Make sure you have enabled ATTACHMENT PREVIEW in the Trust Center, under Attachment Handling.
Step TWO: Open a message with a TEXT.TXT type attachment, which will allow you to open in the reading pane with a single click (not double click) of the attachment.
Step THREE: Select some text in the attachment, copy and now reselect the message (single click) and then click into the SUBJECT field of the message "envelope", and paste.
Step FOUR: Notice how nothing happens. The item *is* in your clipboard and you can paste anywhere else (another file for example), but not in the subject field. The Subject field allows cutting and pasting from other files and if you were to open the attachment by double-clicking (which would launch notepad), you'd have no problem. Only from the previewed attachment to the subject line is inconsistent, and no reason exists for such a limitation.
BUG #2) CLOSING MESSAGE WITH ATTACHMENT OPEN RESULTS IN DIALOG BOX
Steps to reproduce BUG: Step ONE: Open message with an attachment, then open the attachment
Step TWO: Close message while keeping attachment open. (to free up some screen real-estate)
Step THREE: Outlook will display dialog: "The attachments of message have changed, do you want to save changes?"
But you have NOT changed the attachment AT ALL, you have merely opened it. Furthermore, you have not changed the message, so why should you save changes? Why should you even be prompted about this?
BUG #3) MESSAGE CONTANING ANOTHER EMAIL AS AN ATTACHMENT WILL ONLY OPEN ONCE
Steps to reproduce BUG: Step ONE: Create a new Email message
Step TWO: Drag another email from your inbox into the new message to have the old message saved into the new message as an attachment.
Step THREE: Double click on attachment to open it (as if checking to see if the right message was attached).
Step FOUR: Close attachment, but leave "New" message open. Now double click again on the attachment. Outlook will display the following error message : "The operation failed"
If you close the new message and re-open it, you will again be able to view the attachment, but only once, after that Outlook will "fail" with the above error. You're forced to reclose and re-open. Lots of wasted time with that one.
There are plenty more, but I doubt Slashdot will let me post a document this long. BTW: Has anyone tried using the Search function in Outlook 2007 and gotten it to work (i.e., will it let you open anything that has been found?). Mine doesn't.
Oh, and the hilarity trying to use drag and drop with attachments in emails. Oh, the pain.
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And the poor got poorer. Nothing new to see here, move along.
It's criminal, though isn't it? Millions of people are out of work, thousands are losing their homes, a majority of Americans have so little in savings that a single illness can put them over the edge into poverty, and yet, all these guys, despite a huge recession, saw their fortunes go UP.
Go figure.
Macross Plus stole that concept from Megazone 23, which in turn borrowed it from the original Macross.
Megazone 23 was created out of thrown away plot ideas from the 1984 Macross Movie (Do You Remember Love?) -- one of the concepts was that Lynn Minmay would have been killed or captured, but to keep the populace under control, a computer-generated version of her would continue to perform on videoscreens.
That became the Eve character in Megazone 23, who was nothing but a computer generated performance, part of the "Bread and Circuses" required to keep the populace from guessing the truth -- that they are not in the 20th century on Earth, but inside a large spaceship, far from home, fighting an on-going war.
Wasn't that a song by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson?
Arrogancy and Irony,
Live together in perfect harmony.
Side by side on my computer keyboard
oh lord,
Why don't we?
The contents of this post have been removed because they *might* harm some company's profit margin, and we know that in the USA, corporations are WAAAAY more important than people.
And Outlook 2007 is a *shipping product*.
Searching a subfolder inside your inbox still doesn't work (it will find items but you can't open them), It has the must unusual ideas about drag and drop attachments (sometimes it just attaches a GIF icon, but not the document itself), And my favorite, it will randomly exit with an error (an error has occured, would you like to send a report?), when right clicking selected text to change the typeface...
Outlook 2003 was a miracle of speed and stability compared to 2007, so I imagine that, given their reputation to build worse and worse products over time, Outlook 2010 will be a disaster of titanic proportions. With a slew of "features" no one ever wanted or needed.
20 Minutes into the Future....
Amazon sells porn.
Have Jeff Bezos arrested and extridited to Florida.
Watch as Florida looks like the complete dipshits they are when routers across the country refuse to recognize any IP within the state of Florida. Let's see how well Floridians do without the internet.
Great firewall of China? Ha! They ain't seen nothin yet!
Nuff said... (quick, trademark that!).
Have you ever seen Americans drive? It's exactly the same thing.
They get in their cars, stomp on the gas, accelerate onto the highway, cut each other off, and then all come headlong into a dead stop a minute later, so they can gawk at some guy changing his tire.
If they instead travelled at constant speed, they'd get to their destinations faster, but because of their driving habits, it takes longer to get from A to B -- because they go like a bat out of hell for a few minutes and then crawl around every accident or for every bit of precipitation.
YOU sue NFL.
Wait a minute...
That joke doesn't work because it makes Soviet Russia sound more free than the United States.
Oh, now I get it.
---
If I, suddenly decided, that every, second word, should be, separated by, commas then, it would, make this, sentence much, tougher to, use and, understand right?
---
Perhaps you're just trying to sound like William Shatner?
When is the iPhone getting that? The iPad can use a bluetooth keyboard, but the iPhone can't? What kind of crap is this?
And later, there's the running... and the screaming...
There's a brilliant demonstration of this system in the first 30 minutes of the movie ROBOCOP. As you can see, the terrorist was correctly identified and eliminated as a threat. There were no glitches or errors of any kind and the project was a complete success.
This is my complaint about digital TV as well.
When a local disaster occurs, and there's a blackout, people relied on battery powered TVs to get local information on what's happening. We seem to be moving away from tried and true technologies and into the realm of crappy, bug-ridden, oversold technologies that don't work when something bad happens.
Well, maybe when rich, white people start dying they'll change things, but when poor black people die, it's not a big issue for these companies.
As someone who worked with AT&T's marketeers during that time of ISDN development, the internal name for ISDN was "It Still Does Nothing", and I'm afraid that, 20 yrs later, that name continues to hold true.
Will the Robotic Hand from Shadow be able to defeat the Orbots?
Tune in after the break to find out!
Yeah,... Let's see what he did.
After a bunch of greedy bankers nearly ruined the economy, he loaned them OUR MONEY (US Taxpayer dollars) at 0% interest, so they could loan it to back to us (US Taxpayers) at 20% interest.
Except they didn't. They used that money to pay off other internal loans or loans to other banks (such as Goldman Sachs). And we got a great big wet kiss off. Instead, the banks hit us with more fees, higher interest rates on credit cards and loans, all while cutting interest on CDs, savings accounts and everything else.
Oh, and those greedy bankers? They are still running those banks, and they are pocketing millions in bonuses.
In fact, they have figured out that they can say FU to all of America, and keep operating. That's why you can't find a job, but they are reporting record profits.
The banking system should have failed. If America can go to China and borrow money from them to prop up banks, then the banks were fully capable of going to China on their own and begging for money. But they wouldn't do that, because they know the Chinese would have just bought the banks and controlled them.
So, the US should have let the Banks fail and then socialized the whole damn thing. If the US government can loan AIG billions of dollars at 0% interest, why can't I get the same sweetheart deal for $50k? In fact, wouldn't it have been cheaper for the government to just buy everyone's house in the USA? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy all the bad debt? Instead, what we got was a bailout of bad companies with all their associated on-going expenses, with no change of their behavior. So, we're telling them it's OK to do it all over again, and ruin the country, because when you get greedy again, we'll just bail you out again.
Really, is that the system you desire? While it would have been severe hardship in the short-term, all you're doing is putting off the inevitable. We'd really have been better off in the long-term if the country had fallen into anarchy, we'd had riots in the streets and bankers faced the guilotine.
The system we're in now doesn't change a thing, and there's nothing in place to prevent it from happening again.
Okay, let's see if I've got this straight...
#1) Google will SUBSIDIZE the cost of the netbook (aka NetPC, which was hacked out of existence).
#2) Unlike NetPC, they won't be using an intel processor, locking out Windows.
--- so when joey or jane try to download and install their favorite game or chat client, it will fail.
--- so when grandma can't load in her quickbooks document for the church, it will fail.
#3) As someone who has lurked in many a netbook forum, I can tell you the number one question will be "How do I install Windows XP on it?"
#4) Someone will figure out how to install alternative OSes on it, maybe even write some kind of intel CPU emulator, or real-time recompiler, and then hack Windows into running on it, and then the lawsuits begin.
#5) As soon as people get bored with it, into the trash heap it goes.
Google will lose money on this deal. Chrome will not take hold, in fact, most early adopters will be spending their time trying to get Chrome off of it. When the masses get it they will be disappointed by it's lack of backwards compatibility, and start searching (ironically using Google) for websites to show them how to "jailbreak" the thing into running what they want. Adblocker apps will appear as will other hacks to thwart Google, so people can feel they got a "free netbook".
When the last Beetle rolled off the assembly line, all the tooling was sold to China. Now the Chinese stamp out parts for Beetles. I can pull out the Mid America Motorworks catalog and essentially order enough pieces to build a beetle from the ground up. All I need (which can't be ordered) is the center-tube, which is essentially "the frame", but all other pieces are avialable.
What's the bet that all the tooling for this engine will be sold to China, and China will make the engine, but only as parts. So, you'll be able to buy all the pieces and assemble the engine yourself.
This is Effin' brilliant!
Never mind the big rock falling out of the sky. Never mind global warming. Never mind peak oil. Never mind growing hostility between various nuclear powers. Never mind the USA's enormous mind-numbing debt. THIS is what's going to kill us all, and I for one, welcome our new volcanic overlords.
This is a temperate zone, the coconut's tropical.
We were "upgraded" to Outlook 2007, and were previously using 2003. Aside from Outlook 2007 running at half speed versus 2003, it is littered with enormous bugs.
Here's a sample:
BUG #1) OUTLOOK FAILS TO PASTE FROM PREVIEWED ATTACHMENT
Steps to reproduce BUG:
Step ONE: Make sure you have enabled ATTACHMENT PREVIEW in the Trust Center, under Attachment Handling.
Step TWO: Open a message with a TEXT.TXT type attachment, which will allow you to open in the reading pane with a single click (not double click) of the attachment.
Step THREE: Select some text in the attachment, copy and now reselect the message (single click) and then click into the SUBJECT field of the message "envelope", and paste.
Step FOUR: Notice how nothing happens. The item *is* in your clipboard and you can paste anywhere else (another file for example), but not in the subject field. The Subject field allows cutting and pasting from other files and if you were to open the attachment by double-clicking (which would launch notepad), you'd have no problem. Only from the previewed attachment to the subject line is inconsistent, and no reason exists for such a limitation.
BUG #2) CLOSING MESSAGE WITH ATTACHMENT OPEN RESULTS IN DIALOG BOX
Steps to reproduce BUG:
Step ONE: Open message with an attachment, then open the attachment
Step TWO: Close message while keeping attachment open. (to free up some screen real-estate)
Step THREE: Outlook will display dialog: "The attachments of message have changed, do you want to save changes?"
But you have NOT changed the attachment AT ALL, you have merely opened it. Furthermore, you have not changed the message, so why should you save changes? Why should you even be prompted about this?
BUG #3) MESSAGE CONTANING ANOTHER EMAIL AS AN ATTACHMENT WILL ONLY OPEN ONCE
Steps to reproduce BUG:
Step ONE: Create a new Email message
Step TWO: Drag another email from your inbox into the new message to have the old message saved into the new message as an attachment.
Step THREE: Double click on attachment to open it (as if checking to see if the right message was attached).
Step FOUR: Close attachment, but leave "New" message open. Now double click again on the attachment. Outlook will display the following error message : "The operation failed"
If you close the new message and re-open it, you will again be able to view the attachment, but only once, after that Outlook will "fail" with the above error. You're forced to reclose and re-open. Lots of wasted time with that one.
There are plenty more, but I doubt Slashdot will let me post a document this long. BTW: Has anyone tried using the Search function in Outlook 2007 and gotten it to work (i.e., will it let you open anything that has been found?). Mine doesn't.
Oh, and the hilarity trying to use drag and drop with attachments in emails. Oh, the pain.