i wonder what it would be like if we treated elections like american idol? each week the politicians get up in font of a crowd and give a speach on the pre-chossen topic and the one with the lowest score is kicked out of the running. we could get rid of caucuses and primaries the more contestants a party has the more chances to win. it would probably be better then what we have now.
or we could treat it like march madness and have a debate off and eliminate the weak and the stupid in the first few rounds.
why would anyone want to be a redshirt they are always the first one to die on any away mission, and cant shoot a phaser worth crap. I'd much rather be a yellow or blue.
how would that work when not everyone uses the same pdf veiwer? a large number of tech savvy people realize that adobe isn't the only provider of pdf rendering software.
you're one of those who thinks eating is equally boring and tedious and looks forward to the day when we can just inject nutrient rich sludge directly into our stomachs.
we already do that its called they are called "frozen burrito" or "cup'o noodle"
adblock noscript,https everywhere... Firefox just has a abundance of add ons that improve the experience, while from what i have seen with chrome most of the adddons seem to be more the webapp variety. i am not that experienced with ie 10 as i haven touched ie since switching to linux
i remeber that using the experimental 64 bit flash plugin used to stop most hulu ads from playing when i watched hulu on ubuntu but maybe it was just me idk
But Win 8 is a puzzler, how they could go from such a solid release with Win 7 to such a clusterfuck is beyond me. You'd think that the point of having public alpha and beta builds would be to get feedback and fix the problems but not on Ballmer's watch, MSFT didn't have a single positive metric, not one, the beta testers hated it, the tech reviewers hated it, and these aren't haters, we're talking about guys like Bott and Thurott that can usually be counted on for a good review so when even the "go to" guys hate it? You'd think that would have sent up a red flag.
If Ballmer doesn't pull his head out of his ass (or the board fire his sweaty behind)and actually listen to their customers? Well i have a feeling that the EOL of Win 7 in 2020 will only be a footnote, a "Hey, remember when we used Windows?" story that nobody but a few legacy customers gives a crap about.
The stockholders tried to fire his ass once Bill the Gates stopped it dead in its tracks.
your saying that it a computer will only last 3-5 years i have a old thinkpad that came with windows 2000 for a few older games, my current laptop is at the 4 year mark and my only complaint is the crappy opengl linux driver which merely means i won't be using it as a a bit coin farm or run high end games, it will probably live for a decade (it will be re purposed in about 3 more years as a media server or some such) parts are easy to find in my experience, just go to newegg and look. hell i have old desktop setting around under the tv that has been continuously upgraded since the mid 90. you estimated lifespan of a computer is equal to the uptime that many people here would not even bat an eyelash at. now for non slashdoters maybe not worth it.
And all of those same arguments can be said of webcams on laptops and cameras on smart phones; yet you don't worry about them. Hell this is open source you can download the code and audit it if you want. Also from everything I have read very easy to jailbreak so you can root it and install whatever firm ware you want like cyanogen or $RandomDistro gnu-linux. the paranoia is a but over the top here lately. why are none of these fears aimed at phones that can record you everyword with no indication light that people say they would need for this?
hmm lots of pictures from popular movies shows and other corporate owned works are made into memes i wonder if this caes could be used by them as precedent to shutdown web sites like 4chan which live of of people posting memes.
This would be great for manipulating encrypted data on hosted servers you could upload your encrypted database never decrypt it so you will not have to worry about your data beings stolen. while you may have to pay more as you are using more resources i can see this being useful in many environments where business are hesitant to move to cloud based servers for fear of privacy breaches of customer data.
I was thinking more along the lines of making glass with a coating of hydrophobic nano-particle so that watter would not condense on the glass in the first place.
For sending text messages. Do you want to have ads? Do you want your chats monitored and your data sold? Do you want to pay a monthly, weekly per message fee for your messages that you send? A government who will offer the service for free, you pay for it in taxes.
For standard SMS text messages they get somehow added to your phone bill, I personally think they should be a LOT CHEAPER. But you do get a common protocol, because everyone else is doing it.
The other texting methods are incompatible with each other because they all have different rules on how they are funded and supported. The monetary gain must be related to the volume of the texting.
really then how come email does not suffer the same problem? It works on all platforms has free services that all work together, and has free clients with no adds. what is the difference here?
no android app, no ios app no blackberry app and no windows_RT/phone_8 app. Pidgin is desktop only and they don't seem at all interested in porting it.
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eliminate the weak and the stupid in the first few rounds.
So.....if we first eliminate the weak and stupid, who'd be left to vote for in week 2?
people that currently go unelected.
that and you don't have to listen to the winner for four years and you can only win once
i wonder what it would be like if we treated elections like american idol? each week the politicians get up in font of a crowd and give a speach on the pre-chossen topic and the one with the lowest score is kicked out of the running. we could get rid of caucuses and primaries the more contestants a party has the more chances to win. it would probably be better then what we have now.
or we could treat it like march madness and have a debate off and eliminate the weak and the stupid in the first few rounds.
why would anyone want to be a redshirt they are always the first one to die on any away mission, and cant shoot a phaser worth crap. I'd much rather be a yellow or blue.
how would that work when not everyone uses the same pdf veiwer? a large number of tech savvy people realize that adobe isn't the only provider of pdf rendering software.
if a windows cloud crashes would it be a blue sky?
you're one of those who thinks eating is equally boring and tedious and looks forward to the day when we can just inject nutrient rich sludge directly into our stomachs.
we already do that its called they are called "frozen burrito" or "cup'o noodle"
it would not be piracy then it would be legit.
adblock noscript,https everywhere...
Firefox just has a abundance of add ons that improve the experience, while from what i have seen with chrome most of the adddons seem to be more the webapp variety. i am not that experienced with ie 10 as i haven touched ie since switching to linux
i remeber that using the experimental 64 bit flash plugin used to stop most hulu ads from playing when i watched hulu on ubuntu but maybe it was just me idk
But Win 8 is a puzzler, how they could go from such a solid release with Win 7 to such a clusterfuck is beyond me. You'd think that the point of having public alpha and beta builds would be to get feedback and fix the problems but not on Ballmer's watch, MSFT didn't have a single positive metric, not one, the beta testers hated it, the tech reviewers hated it, and these aren't haters, we're talking about guys like Bott and Thurott that can usually be counted on for a good review so when even the "go to" guys hate it? You'd think that would have sent up a red flag.
If Ballmer doesn't pull his head out of his ass (or the board fire his sweaty behind)and actually listen to their customers? Well i have a feeling that the EOL of Win 7 in 2020 will only be a footnote, a "Hey, remember when we used Windows?" story that nobody but a few legacy customers gives a crap about.
The stockholders tried to fire his ass once Bill the Gates stopped it dead in its tracks.
or your could use the firefox Enterprise Support Release (ESR) that is supported for a year.
your saying that it a computer will only last 3-5 years i have a old thinkpad that came with windows 2000 for a few older games, my current laptop is at the 4 year mark and my only complaint is the crappy opengl linux driver which merely means i won't be using it as a a bit coin farm or run high end games, it will probably live for a decade (it will be re purposed in about 3 more years as a media server or some such) parts are easy to find in my experience, just go to newegg and look. hell i have old desktop setting around under the tv that has been continuously upgraded since the mid 90. you estimated lifespan of a computer is equal to the uptime that many people here would not even bat an eyelash at. now for non slashdoters maybe not worth it.
And all of those same arguments can be said of webcams on laptops and cameras on smart phones; yet you don't worry about them. Hell this is open source you can download the code and audit it if you want. Also from everything I have read very easy to jailbreak so you can root it and install whatever firm ware you want like cyanogen or $RandomDistro gnu-linux. the paranoia is a but over the top here lately. why are none of these fears aimed at phones that can record you everyword with no indication light that people say they would need for this?
hmm lots of pictures from popular movies shows and other corporate owned works are made into memes i wonder if this caes could be used by them as precedent to shutdown web sites like 4chan which live of of people posting memes.
yes but it is not recording *everything* which is what people are fearing with Google glasses.
and the cellphone still doesn't record amd transcribe your everyword. just like the glasses will not be used for constant video recording.
except it doesn't record 24/7 only when you tell it to and it only has a 5 hour battery life anyway very unlikely to be used the way you suggest.
you assume that network access is not implicitely needed for other app to function.
then they can go watch television and leave the internet the f*** alone.
This would be great for manipulating encrypted data on hosted servers you could upload your encrypted database never decrypt it so you will not have to worry about your data beings stolen. while you may have to pay more as you are using more resources i can see this being useful in many environments where business are hesitant to move to cloud based servers for fear of privacy breaches of customer data.
I was thinking more along the lines of making glass with a coating of hydrophobic nano-particle so that watter would not condense on the glass in the first place.
Do we actually have to kill these maggots to stop all this non-sense? They want to eat us alive.
yes but thats illeagle and nukes from orbit won't do it they are the only thing left that will survive it
For sending text messages. Do you want to have ads? Do you want your chats monitored and your data sold? Do you want to pay a monthly, weekly per message fee for your messages that you send? A government who will offer the service for free, you pay for it in taxes.
For standard SMS text messages they get somehow added to your phone bill, I personally think they should be a LOT CHEAPER. But you do get a common protocol, because everyone else is doing it.
The other texting methods are incompatible with each other because they all have different rules on how they are funded and supported. The monetary gain must be related to the volume of the texting.
really then how come email does not suffer the same problem? It works on all platforms has free services that all work together, and has free clients with no adds. what is the difference here?
no android app, no ios app no blackberry app and no windows_RT/phone_8 app. Pidgin is desktop only and they don't seem at all interested in porting it.