See, you get it. I didn't vote forTrump in the primaries and I was furious when he won. But I voted for him in the general because the alternative was unimaginable. Since then, I've been pretty happy with what he's done.
You are describing exactly how I feel. The more spittle-sprayingly angry the Left and the media become, the more it makes me like Trump. Enemy of my enemy and all that, but mostly because they are falling for his trolling every single time. He's playing them like a fiddle and by saying ridiculous things, making them look even more ridiculous when they constantly lose their minds over it. "Acting Presidential" is so last century. Obama didn't do it either, but he always got a pass. It's a new world, and I don't like a lot of the rules, but Trump has mastered them.
The proper reaction to someone being an idiot is to ignore them. Not to post a video of them on Facebook or YouTube just so you can comment "OMG can you believe this guy?" and be the first one to collect a million likes.
And yet, the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) fall for it... Every. Single. Time. They will continue to fall for it, every single time, as along as Trump remains in office, and probably beyond. Who's the idiot here? The troll or the people who allow themselves to be trolled time after time, year after year?
Honestly, as distasteful as I find the President's tweets, and as often as I cringe at them, I totally get why he does it, and am amazed as how well it works.
See, you are just like the media, whom Trump trolls with impunity and you are falling for it just as easily as they do.
The idea that he's not sane is so facile, and requires so little effort, and has been used against every President since Carter, with the possible exception of Bush 41. It's as meaningless as a Democrat calling someone racist.
I see absolutely no indication that Trump is unstable. Instead, I see a man who has an enormous ego, and who loves to troll people, and who have little compunction for decorum, at least in public forums, but I don't see any reason to think he's unstable. In fact, I see quite the opposite. I see someone who is very methodical and calculating, and someone who knows he cannot win over his enemies (i.e., most of the MSM and their audience) and will waste little or no energy trying, but who nevertheless is very persuasive in dealing with people. He's accomplished a lot (regardless of whether you think it's good or bad), and will continue to do so. No matter what happens in the next 3 years, it won't be the status quo.
And that's entirely the basis for his strategy. He plays the media like a fiddle. They will crucify him no matter what he does, so he constantly trolls them to keep them busy and happy (if you can call constant fits of spluttering rage happy). I find it very distasteful, but you have to admit, it works. I find it hilarious how easily he manipulates the media.
Trump is arrogant, egotistical and crude, but he's not stupid, and he clearly doesn't care what the press thinks of him, which gives him a freedom almost no other Republican politician has had, because amidst all the fireworks, he's accomplished a lot, regardless of whether you like what he's done or not.
Of course, derivative works don't have to be so expensive. Just change the character names of your Twilight fanfic and publish them as an "original" work. Cha-ching!
Welcome to the club. I've gotten used to the idea of people not knowing "obvious" things. The upside is that you can explain them and help educate folks.
I think the burden of proof is to demonstrate a good implementation. "Poor implementations" have spread their wreckage over half the Earth in the 20th century.
Well, let's see. I would need about eight 32GB flashdrives, and I can't access those from every device I use without a whole lot of hassle. So, yeah, this service and its convenience is worth $2/month for me, because I have a good job and can afford it. Perhaps you should spend more time writing sentences that actually make sense and less time making bogus recommendations.
And I can access it on any device I have. You seem to be missing that part. It's convenience that's worth $2/month for me. Or are you suggesting I can access a shared folder on my computer from my phone or tablet from anywhere? Because that would be pretty neat. I don't need to set up a Plex server, or whatever.
See, I don't get you young people who can't see two inches in front of your noses. I never get over the capacity for people on the Internet to randomly insult folks for no good reason and taking the Lord's name in vain to boot. Yeah, I'll keep my low ID, thanks. You have nothing to offer the conversation.
I'm sure almost no one uses the cloud to replace local storage, but as a convenience in addition to local storage. I certainly don't. But, sure, go ahead and insult people that don't exist.
I love the convenience of Amazon Music, but I'll be able to come up with an alternative. I have all my media on multiple spinning-rust platters and aluminized plastic. It's not going anywhere.
I have all my music uploaded to the Amazon cloud, for which I pay $25/year. This gives me access to all of my music everywhere, without the need for hundreds of GB of storage, but I still keep offline copies of everything. Don't knock the cloud. It has its uses.
This is what the content providers don't seem to understand. The pirate sites provide much better service than what you get for paying for the content. I don't use them myself, and I don't condone it, but when paying for something gives you less value and more hassle than torrenting it, you can expect more and more people will do that.
Amazon's services are generally pretty good, but their software sucks. I tried installing Tidal the other day on my tablet, and after I did, the regular Amazon Music player got really stuttery. Around that time Tidal crashed (why was it even running, I hadn't launched it), so I uninstalled it. Amazon Music went right back to working again. Their software is very buggy, and the Amazon Music app for Windows is horribly designed. I'm not surprised with the stories you're telling.
Yes. This is what I've been doing since the days of Windows 3, and nothing beats it. I never have trouble finding things because I have a very simple way to organize them, very similar to what you described. The Program folder is a place to find your programs, not to use as advertising for the company that made the software.
That's because you rely on a ridiculously designed menu that lets the software authors turn it into advertising for their company, rather than as a place to organize your programs. I organize my Programs folder in a way that's similar to what KDE 3.5 used to do, and I have no problems finding anything. Sure, it's more work, but no one else is smart enough to do it (even though it would have been easy enough for Microsoft to implement such a feature).
The coaches' pay is only commensurate with the money they help bring in by being good coaches. The universities know who butters their bread. It's hard to blame them for that.
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I'll see your prediction and add that "Blockchain" will become the "pumpkin-spice" of technology products.
See, you get it. I didn't vote forTrump in the primaries and I was furious when he won. But I voted for him in the general because the alternative was unimaginable. Since then, I've been pretty happy with what he's done.
You are describing exactly how I feel. The more spittle-sprayingly angry the Left and the media become, the more it makes me like Trump. Enemy of my enemy and all that, but mostly because they are falling for his trolling every single time. He's playing them like a fiddle and by saying ridiculous things, making them look even more ridiculous when they constantly lose their minds over it. "Acting Presidential" is so last century. Obama didn't do it either, but he always got a pass. It's a new world, and I don't like a lot of the rules, but Trump has mastered them.
The proper reaction to someone being an idiot is to ignore them. Not to post a video of them on Facebook or YouTube just so you can comment "OMG can you believe this guy?" and be the first one to collect a million likes.
And yet, the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) fall for it... Every. Single. Time. They will continue to fall for it, every single time, as along as Trump remains in office, and probably beyond. Who's the idiot here? The troll or the people who allow themselves to be trolled time after time, year after year?
Honestly, as distasteful as I find the President's tweets, and as often as I cringe at them, I totally get why he does it, and am amazed as how well it works.
But, but, but, muh Trump insanity...
See, you are just like the media, whom Trump trolls with impunity and you are falling for it just as easily as they do.
The idea that he's not sane is so facile, and requires so little effort, and has been used against every President since Carter, with the possible exception of Bush 41. It's as meaningless as a Democrat calling someone racist.
I see absolutely no indication that Trump is unstable. Instead, I see a man who has an enormous ego, and who loves to troll people, and who have little compunction for decorum, at least in public forums, but I don't see any reason to think he's unstable. In fact, I see quite the opposite. I see someone who is very methodical and calculating, and someone who knows he cannot win over his enemies (i.e., most of the MSM and their audience) and will waste little or no energy trying, but who nevertheless is very persuasive in dealing with people. He's accomplished a lot (regardless of whether you think it's good or bad), and will continue to do so. No matter what happens in the next 3 years, it won't be the status quo.
And that's entirely the basis for his strategy. He plays the media like a fiddle. They will crucify him no matter what he does, so he constantly trolls them to keep them busy and happy (if you can call constant fits of spluttering rage happy). I find it very distasteful, but you have to admit, it works. I find it hilarious how easily he manipulates the media.
Trump is arrogant, egotistical and crude, but he's not stupid, and he clearly doesn't care what the press thinks of him, which gives him a freedom almost no other Republican politician has had, because amidst all the fireworks, he's accomplished a lot, regardless of whether you like what he's done or not.
At least until Microsoft bundles wget, which will happen sometime after the heat death of the universe.
I evaluated the full number using the mpmath Python library. It starts with:
46733318335923109998833558556111...
and ends with: ...1136582730618069762179071
It took over an hour, but there are likely better ways to do it than I did, even with mpmath.
Did they check it on Intel or AMD CPU?
Both.
https://www.mersenne.org/prime...
The results were checked with several different pieces of software on multiple platforms.
Of course, derivative works don't have to be so expensive. Just change the character names of your Twilight fanfic and publish them as an "original" work. Cha-ching!
Would you please provide links to Jazz records that are in the public domain. I love jazz!
archive.org is your friend.
Welcome to the club. I've gotten used to the idea of people not knowing "obvious" things. The upside is that you can explain them and help educate folks.
I think the burden of proof is to demonstrate a good implementation. "Poor implementations" have spread their wreckage over half the Earth in the 20th century.
Well, let's see. I would need about eight 32GB flashdrives, and I can't access those from every device I use without a whole lot of hassle. So, yeah, this service and its convenience is worth $2/month for me, because I have a good job and can afford it. Perhaps you should spend more time writing sentences that actually make sense and less time making bogus recommendations.
And I can access it on any device I have. You seem to be missing that part. It's convenience that's worth $2/month for me. Or are you suggesting I can access a shared folder on my computer from my phone or tablet from anywhere? Because that would be pretty neat. I don't need to set up a Plex server, or whatever.
See, I don't get you young people who can't see two inches in front of your noses. I never get over the capacity for people on the Internet to randomly insult folks for no good reason and taking the Lord's name in vain to boot. Yeah, I'll keep my low ID, thanks. You have nothing to offer the conversation.
I'm sure almost no one uses the cloud to replace local storage, but as a convenience in addition to local storage. I certainly don't. But, sure, go ahead and insult people that don't exist.
I love the convenience of Amazon Music, but I'll be able to come up with an alternative. I have all my media on multiple spinning-rust platters and aluminized plastic. It's not going anywhere.
I have all my music uploaded to the Amazon cloud, for which I pay $25/year. This gives me access to all of my music everywhere, without the need for hundreds of GB of storage, but I still keep offline copies of everything. Don't knock the cloud. It has its uses.
This is what the content providers don't seem to understand. The pirate sites provide much better service than what you get for paying for the content. I don't use them myself, and I don't condone it, but when paying for something gives you less value and more hassle than torrenting it, you can expect more and more people will do that.
Amazon's services are generally pretty good, but their software sucks. I tried installing Tidal the other day on my tablet, and after I did, the regular Amazon Music player got really stuttery. Around that time Tidal crashed (why was it even running, I hadn't launched it), so I uninstalled it. Amazon Music went right back to working again. Their software is very buggy, and the Amazon Music app for Windows is horribly designed. I'm not surprised with the stories you're telling.
Yes. This is what I've been doing since the days of Windows 3, and nothing beats it. I never have trouble finding things because I have a very simple way to organize them, very similar to what you described. The Program folder is a place to find your programs, not to use as advertising for the company that made the software.
That's because you rely on a ridiculously designed menu that lets the software authors turn it into advertising for their company, rather than as a place to organize your programs. I organize my Programs folder in a way that's similar to what KDE 3.5 used to do, and I have no problems finding anything. Sure, it's more work, but no one else is smart enough to do it (even though it would have been easy enough for Microsoft to implement such a feature).
That probably would solve a lot of problems in Hollywood and Congress...
1984 seems so quaint now. Relatedly, I'm pretty sure GIFs are the 21st century Newspeak.
The USA is heading towards Snow Crash, not 1984.
....via "Brave New World".
The coaches' pay is only commensurate with the money they help bring in by being good coaches. The universities know who butters their bread. It's hard to blame them for that.
Every spook agency can help itself to your phone if it can just pry open an eyelid on your corpse to open it.
Yeah, I have visions of Wesley Snipes with a scalpel.