FlashBlock works fine for that. So does NoScript and AdBlockPlus. Anyone surfing without these extensions is risking their security to a company (MS) with a hideously bad track record. Even when I'm running Windows, I just don't fear this kind of nonsense... because I know not to trust Microsoft, but supplement its security with other measures. And when I'm using Linux (same browser, same extensions) I can only say "HAW HAW!" and yet be thoroughly disgusted at all the damage MS causes (or allows to happen) and yet there is no culpability.
Every version of Windows has come with a performance hit, but XP --> Vista was the biggest performance hit ever. The slowest computer I've ever used since my floppy-based Amiga 500 was a low-end Gateway I vought for my wife that came with Vista. It was unusably slow and she hated it... and this is _after_ I upgraded it to 1.5GB of RAM. On the other hand, it runs Ubuntu just fine and is sweet and snappy. You would double-click to launch Firefox and nothing would happen for 30-60 seconds. It was like that for most apps. I'd hate to have tried Word on that machine. Microsoft simply cannot write good code any more. Actually, I'm sure they have hundreds or even thousands of engineers that can, but their management is so dysfunctional that they will destroy anything good that the smart people who do work at MS can create. Maybe if that extra-chromosome evolutionary throwback in charge would stop shouting obscenities at the competition he could direct the company to actually do something useful.
but I am sure that anyone sensible understands that Iraq was a war for resources
While that sounds not unreasonable I have to ask... WHAT resources? What have we actually gotten out it? Nothing that I can see. Where's all that cheap oil everyone claims we went to war for?
Let's face it, they would piss most of it way regardless of what it's supposedly being spent on. The U.S. government could eliminate 95% of its budget if it wasn't mired in management practices that were obsolete 50 years ago. It's no exaggeration that I feel it really doesn't matter, because the amount of money that is simply wasted far outweighs defense spending, entitlement spending or anything that could actually be considered a legitimate government expenditure, which I'm sad to say does not include science. Now I love the fact that science is funded, but I hardly see where the federal government has the authority to do so. Not that that stops anything...
Perhaps, but I imagine there are a lot fewer people needed to mine uranium than coal. While it might take tons of ore to produce grams of fuel, it doesn't take so many grams of fuel to keep a reactor going. I would guess there are an order (or orders) of magnitude fewer uranium miners in the world.
Nevertheless, you've got a good point I've never considered.
I know. It amazes me how common this complaint is. I have very few albums in a collection of over 1200 where only a few tracks are good, and usually those are albums I bought completely cold, without knowing anything about just because it looked interesting (although I had a pretty good track record of picking out good stuff that way... not that that matters any more since Tower records is gone and there are no music stores worth going to any more).
It's a pretty sad commentary on the music business, which used to be more of a meritocracy than it is now.
Yes, I find it funny when people are extolling the dangers of nuclear power when we have coal mining accidents with many deaths on almost a monthly basis. Of course, those environmentalists aren't coal miners, so they don't care. These are the same people that would paralyze the world's economy, throwing millions more people into chaos, war and starvation just to enact their silly plans that probably wouldn't do any good anyway, but that's OK, because they _feel_ good. Oh yeah, and global warming caused those California fires and we never had a bad hurricane before Katrina.
The smart environmentalists realize what's been true all along. The benefits of nuclear power far outweigh its disadvantages, at least until we have better alternatives.
There are many awesomely talented people at Microsoft _and_ MS research, but their management has over 30 years of experience in quashing any productivity, good ideas and real innovation from what they produce.
I worked at AOL for 15 months ending in 2006. There were some awesomely talented people at AOL too, and although most have left now, many still remain. You wouldn't know it because management was even more effective at completely destroying any good ideas, cancelling any project that was making progress or simply sabotaging good technology because of self-interest, prejudice, or just plain old spite. AOL's management has graven in stone that their products will only target the lowest of the lowest common denominator, and although they bandied the word "long tail" quite a bit, and even seemed to know what it meant, nothing ever came of it.
Microsoft likewise is unlikely to actually release anything that doesn't treat the customer with utter contempt and ham-fisted attempts to force lock-in to the morbidly bloated and slightly rotting corpus of Microsoft-only technology, despite all the brilliant innovations at MS research and the non-management techies. Their management is too consumed with a monomaniacal hatred of competition, coming straight from the multiple Y-chromosome evolutionary throwback running the company these days. Microsoft would rather self-destruct than succeed if it means having to compete fairly, and not annihilating, by any means, any company that would produce something better. Nothing else explains the big wad of "screw you" that is Vista.
Depends on which poll you look at. Of course that still means there are people who think Congress is doing a good job. Those people are too stupid to be in this country and should be deported.
No kidding. That's the thing with DRM, it gives the company the ability to revoke your product any time they want, and there's nothing you can do about it. Class action suit? Great, have fun cashing your check for 13 cents. That'll teach 'em a lesson.
Face it, DRM means you are at their mercy, and companies ain't got no mercy. They can do whatever they want to you, and you gotta grin and bear it.
Actually it was about 19% when the Democrats took over. It's now around 11%, showing that no matter how bad the Republicans can screw things up, the Democrats can make it worse.
Actually, public opinion shouldn't matter. We are electing these people to apply their expertise to problems that we don't always understand, and the best decisions are often unpopular. Of course, the fact is that their 11% approval is entirely deserved because our Congress is corrupt, incompetent and wholly pathetic.
Every election these days is about voting for the lesser evil, and 2008 will be no different. Frankly, I'm tired of voting for evil, lesser or not. It's a waste of time. Whether we get Boy Hillary (Giuliani) or Girl Hillary (I mean Senator Clinton, of course, although an argument could be made that "Girl Hillary" is in fact John Edwards) in 2008, we're screwed and ain't nothin' gonna get better except maybe we'll stop invading countries.
It won't get better until the Big Duopoly of the Republicrats is broken.
But have we really sunk this low?... are we really heading for the 1984 Big Brother world, where technology is used against anyone who may even have any view, which could oppose the current people in power?
If you have to ask, you haven't been paying attention.
Must be the stores you shop in, unless it's been very recent. I picked up a 150-in-1 kit from Radio Shack a few years ago. If anything, it's much, much better than the 150-in-1 I had as a kid. The new set includes a nice breadboard and purchasing additional components is really cheap. Heck you can get yourself a PIC set or something similar for the price of a dinner out and are suddenly working with microcontrollers. Electronics is waaay better and cooler now.
Of course, now that I've said it, I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security is rushing to "fix" that problem. They'll do anything as long as it doesn't risk actually being effective, because in order to be effective, you will piss off the bad guys, and when bad guys get pissed off, they get explodey. They settle for just pissing off the U.S. citizens, because, unfortunately, we sit here and take it like sheep. If we didn't we would have a government consisting almost solely of bloated, stupid, corrupt, greedy, ego-maniacal, spineless oxygen-thieves who hate (or at best, are indifferent to) everything but themselves.
That's a great idea until an FBI agent is standing on your neck when they track down illegal activity to your connection. I'm not trying to be cynical because I really do think your idea is great. However, I have a hard time believing the government will buy (or even understand) all the precautions you are taking when they find out someone is snarfing kiddie porn through your wireless.
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... because they really _can_ party like it's 1999.
(Disclaimer: It's actually 2000 in Ethiopia, but when am I _ever_ gonna have a chance to use that joke again?!)
FlashBlock works fine for that. So does NoScript and AdBlockPlus. Anyone surfing without these extensions is risking their security to a company (MS) with a hideously bad track record. Even when I'm running Windows, I just don't fear this kind of nonsense... because I know not to trust Microsoft, but supplement its security with other measures. And when I'm using Linux (same browser, same extensions) I can only say "HAW HAW!" and yet be thoroughly disgusted at all the damage MS causes (or allows to happen) and yet there is no culpability.
Better watch out... you're getting modded Insightful too... or maybe the mods just have a sense of humor.
But are the Western Oil companies actually getting access to the Iraq oil?
Every version of Windows has come with a performance hit, but XP --> Vista was the biggest performance hit ever. The slowest computer I've ever used since my floppy-based Amiga 500 was a low-end Gateway I vought for my wife that came with Vista. It was unusably slow and she hated it... and this is _after_ I upgraded it to 1.5GB of RAM. On the other hand, it runs Ubuntu just fine and is sweet and snappy. You would double-click to launch Firefox and nothing would happen for 30-60 seconds. It was like that for most apps. I'd hate to have tried Word on that machine. Microsoft simply cannot write good code any more. Actually, I'm sure they have hundreds or even thousands of engineers that can, but their management is so dysfunctional that they will destroy anything good that the smart people who do work at MS can create. Maybe if that extra-chromosome evolutionary throwback in charge would stop shouting obscenities at the competition he could direct the company to actually do something useful.
I always thought they just threw another 20 megs of code in to work around the problem.
but I am sure that anyone sensible understands that Iraq was a war for resources
While that sounds not unreasonable I have to ask... WHAT resources? What have we actually gotten out it? Nothing that I can see.
Where's all that cheap oil everyone claims we went to war for?
Maybe it's because the U.N. has a very real hatred for the U.S. and its interests.
Let's face it, they would piss most of it way regardless of what it's supposedly being spent on. The U.S. government could eliminate 95% of its budget if it wasn't mired in management practices that were obsolete 50 years ago. It's no exaggeration that I feel it really doesn't matter, because the amount of money that is simply wasted far outweighs defense spending, entitlement spending or anything that could actually be considered a legitimate government expenditure, which I'm sad to say does not include science. Now I love the fact that science is funded, but I hardly see where the federal government has the authority to do so. Not that that stops anything...
Perhaps, but I imagine there are a lot fewer people needed to mine uranium than coal. While it might take tons of ore to produce grams of fuel, it doesn't take so many grams of fuel to keep a reactor going. I would guess there are an order (or orders) of magnitude fewer uranium miners in the world.
Nevertheless, you've got a good point I've never considered.
I know. It amazes me how common this complaint is. I have very few albums in a collection of over 1200 where only a few tracks are good, and usually those are albums I bought completely cold, without knowing anything about just because it looked interesting (although I had a pretty good track record of picking out good stuff that way... not that that matters any more since Tower records is gone and there are no music stores worth going to any more).
It's a pretty sad commentary on the music business, which used to be more of a meritocracy than it is now.
Yes, I find it funny when people are extolling the dangers of nuclear power when we have coal mining accidents with many deaths on almost a monthly basis. Of course, those environmentalists aren't coal miners, so they don't care. These are the same people that would paralyze the world's economy, throwing millions more people into chaos, war and starvation just to enact their silly plans that probably wouldn't do any good anyway, but that's OK, because they _feel_ good. Oh yeah, and global warming caused those California fires and we never had a bad hurricane before Katrina.
The smart environmentalists realize what's been true all along. The benefits of nuclear power far outweigh its disadvantages, at least until we have better alternatives.
There are many awesomely talented people at Microsoft _and_ MS research, but their management has over 30 years of experience in quashing any productivity, good ideas and real innovation from what they produce.
I worked at AOL for 15 months ending in 2006. There were some awesomely talented people at AOL too, and although most have left now, many still remain. You wouldn't know it because management was even more effective at completely destroying any good ideas, cancelling any project that was making progress or simply sabotaging good technology because of self-interest, prejudice, or just plain old spite. AOL's management has graven in stone that their products will only target the lowest of the lowest common denominator, and although they bandied the word "long tail" quite a bit, and even seemed to know what it meant, nothing ever came of it.
Microsoft likewise is unlikely to actually release anything that doesn't treat the customer with utter contempt and ham-fisted attempts to force lock-in to the morbidly bloated and slightly rotting corpus of Microsoft-only technology, despite all the brilliant innovations at MS research and the non-management techies. Their management is too consumed with a monomaniacal hatred of competition, coming straight from the multiple Y-chromosome evolutionary throwback running the company these days. Microsoft would rather self-destruct than succeed if it means having to compete fairly, and not annihilating, by any means, any company that would produce something better. Nothing else explains the big wad of "screw you" that is Vista.
That's not exaggerated a bit, is it?
Don't worry, Windows was still 40+ years in the future. No one had invented plug-n-play autopwn until MS came along.
Besides, if you save up too many random numbers the laws of thermodynamics might cause your tea to freeze.
Perhaps you could pour hot tea into it instead.
How in the world do you get fired 5 times in one day? That doesn't make sense.
Depends on which poll you look at. Of course that still means there are people who think Congress is doing a good job. Those people are too stupid to be in this country and should be deported.
No kidding. That's the thing with DRM, it gives the company the ability to revoke your product any time they want, and there's nothing you can do about it. Class action suit? Great, have fun cashing your check for 13 cents. That'll teach 'em a lesson.
Face it, DRM means you are at their mercy, and companies ain't got no mercy. They can do whatever they want to you, and you gotta grin and bear it.
I just had to comment that you are the first person I've ever seen that realizes the word is "jibe" and not "jive".
Actually it was about 19% when the Democrats took over. It's now around 11%, showing that no matter how bad the Republicans can screw things up, the Democrats can make it worse.
Actually, public opinion shouldn't matter. We are electing these people to apply their expertise to problems that we don't always understand, and the best decisions are often unpopular. Of course, the fact is that their 11% approval is entirely deserved because our Congress is corrupt, incompetent and wholly pathetic.
Every election these days is about voting for the lesser evil, and 2008 will be no different. Frankly, I'm tired of voting for evil, lesser or not. It's a waste of time. Whether we get Boy Hillary (Giuliani) or Girl Hillary (I mean Senator Clinton, of course, although an argument could be made that "Girl Hillary" is in fact John Edwards) in 2008, we're screwed and ain't nothin' gonna get better except maybe we'll stop invading countries.
It won't get better until the Big Duopoly of the Republicrats is broken.
Yes, but not without the hostess herself taking a step to the left.
But have we really sunk this low? ... are we really heading for the 1984 Big Brother world, where technology is used against anyone who may even have any view, which could oppose the current people in power?
If you have to ask, you haven't been paying attention.
Must be the stores you shop in, unless it's been very recent. I picked up a 150-in-1 kit from Radio Shack a few years ago. If anything, it's much, much better than the 150-in-1 I had as a kid. The new set includes a nice breadboard and purchasing additional components is really cheap. Heck you can get yourself a PIC set or something similar for the price of a dinner out and are suddenly working with microcontrollers. Electronics is waaay better and cooler now.
Of course, now that I've said it, I'm sure the Department of Homeland Security is rushing to "fix" that problem. They'll do anything as long as it doesn't risk actually being effective, because in order to be effective, you will piss off the bad guys, and when bad guys get pissed off, they get explodey. They settle for just pissing off the U.S. citizens, because, unfortunately, we sit here and take it like sheep. If we didn't we would have a government consisting almost solely of bloated, stupid, corrupt, greedy, ego-maniacal, spineless oxygen-thieves who hate (or at best, are indifferent to) everything but themselves.
That's a great idea until an FBI agent is standing on your neck when they track down illegal activity to your connection. I'm not trying to be cynical because I really do think your idea is great. However, I have a hard time believing the government will buy (or even understand) all the precautions you are taking when they find out someone is snarfing kiddie porn through your wireless.