im-not-so-humble-o, it is rather our giri to trot out the better, as opposed to marketing tripe worse than those fine examples already cited, so as to provide the opportunity for educating the m-drones in productive (that is to say, rational and preferably internally consistent) thought construction. Perhaps "buy our stuff because we're hungry" will not attract many, but some (as P.T. Barnum would remind us), and at least it would qualify as honest, thus having a built-in and fairly rare hook.
Insightful, perhaps, but incomplete, Grasshoppa. Cisco sells their service, which is a warm and fuzzy security blanket, and well worth the premium they charge. Unfortunately, 3Com has no equivilant reputation in this area.
While I agree the thought of lusers (even lusers with pilot licenses, as these are required for the Moller) flying cars is a bit frightening, fortunately the Moller flying car does not rely on traditional wing surfaces to provide lift, rather the 4x ram jets do this job. As to underpowered, I find 500 mph plenty fast, but then I'm old. Your analogy to a brick is actually more accurate for the Moller design than you may realize;)
Having watched the Moller development for the last +20 years, from "flying saucer" to "Jetson-mobile", I gaze fondly at the die-cast model on my desk and dream of the day when I'll have a spare million or two to blow on a car.
Paintball -- the most fun you can have with your pants on.
Seriously (OK, MORE seriously), you can paintball in many more environments than you can lasertag (plus you avoid the toxic complications of Zombie Smoke), and the (small but undeniable) pain of taking a hit is a far better motivator to stealthy movement and quick reactions than a bit of light.
maybe we should be a bit more concerned with questions such as, "Can humans be saved?" (not to mention "how?") and leave the hand-wringing over a 3 hour entertainment not due to be screened for a year to those with too much free time and too few free neurons who naturally gravitate to bottom-feeding.
Rob loves his job! Really, I'm not just forcing him to type this at gunpoint. Rob likes getting computers to do what we think they're supposed to be doing, even if this may too-often envolve cursing and the pounding of fists. Rob works for Gracenote (that "other" evil empire;), and none of his users try the cup-holder trick. OK, maybe one has...
I disagree regarding craigslist's (or any good resource) eventual devolution into uselessness, such as that which has marked Monster -- mostly it is the quality of people (term used loosely) using the board: Monster is overrun by headhunter orgs posting not-quite false jobs to lure a constant feed for their body hoppers. This generates a situation where the board looses apparent functionality. Since many organizations post to craigslist directly, the effect of the typical strategies of "placement services" is diluted and may not lead to the degradation ThingOne predicts (my hope, anyways).
sorry if this just expands on Leto2's point, but it's stating the obvious, which is my special skill: but, uhm, doesn't _everyone_ do this? I think it's called "staying in business" or "enhancing shareholder value" or some other bumfuck euphemism for capitalism.
Wow Coward, I'm very sorry to hear of your and your wife's experiences with Macintosh users, as I would be for anyone abused by self-centered bigots, or, say for instance, who'd just had their dog run over. Somehow I'm sure you were mistakenly identified with the witless morons who like to carry on such debates as which computer is "best." There is certainly some good advice in the other replies here about places and circumstances where your questions would be welcomed and answered with some courtesy and consideration.
Here's my two cents: while it is understandable that a group representing one tenth of a larger group may react defensively toward the larger fraction, it is NOT excusable, and DOES NOT justify poor behaviour.
Hemos and D\monix should check their posts for ACCURACY before putting them up. This kind of tripe is what makes life tough for those of us with working brains. Note for humans -> simply sterilizing anything by any means is hardly a basis for running up the "mutant" flag. Enough worry surrounds this topic without half-baked "authorities" stating unreasoned fears as truth, or using flash-point vocabulary to inhance their image.
is good software made by responsible vendors. As a corporate IT shill,I'm the guy you want to hear from, and here's what I say: Shoot down legislation making it impossible to impose standards of performance. Stand up to corporation lobbyists who seek special privilege. In short, stay involved but use your brain! Consumers of all kinds need protection from the monopolistic megalithic manufacturers who stifle competition on the one hand and then provide poorly engineered solutions where once an industry prospered.
Remember hyacinthus, electricity, clean water piped to your house, natural gas, etc. started out as so called "luxuries" too. It amazes me even now how many self-proclaimed computer illiterates go balistic if their email craps out for 15 minutes...
Imagine what we'll be like if we give Internet the 100 years of infrastructure that the power grid has benefitted from.
At least Mattaeus had balls enough to show his name supporting ignorance at the best and sinister corproate conspiriacy at the worst. Nameless Coward has no clue. I am not "liberal" but can clearly see deregulation improperly promulgated, as it is by its usual proponents (the regulated), flops horribly to the extreme expense of the consumer. (OK, so now you can tell I'm from California;-)
I couldn't have said it better than michael -- let's all hand over our guns and sign up for barcode tattoos while we're at it!
Sorry, if you think U.S. judges are appointed for their expertise (vs. their political connections) you're from another PLANET, not just another country...
I must say, M. Boyles gets 100% here. As the guy quoted saying "rather chew my right arm off than install NT," I fully agree with the "best tool for the job at hand" school (and thank the Lord mine so far is easier using MacOS/Linuxppc/Solaris). My OS may be better than yours (for some things), and vice versa. Doesn't mean either of us are dain bramaged.
Cheers,
Rob
Jurri, I think never is the answer. Not having read the other responses to your question, I'll chip in my understanding is some of the OSX can be ported to any *nix-running platform, but no Aqua interface or other hardware to kernel optimizing. Whether this will ever happen is another question entirely, but I suspect it's got the same answer;-)
Cheers,
Rob
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im-not-so-humble-o, it is rather our giri to trot out the better, as opposed to marketing tripe worse than those fine examples already cited, so as to provide the opportunity for educating the m-drones in productive (that is to say, rational and preferably internally consistent) thought construction. Perhaps "buy our stuff because we're hungry" will not attract many, but some (as P.T. Barnum would remind us), and at least it would qualify as honest, thus having a built-in and fairly rare hook.
Cheers,
RobN
Insightful, perhaps, but incomplete, Grasshoppa. Cisco sells their service, which is a warm and fuzzy security blanket, and well worth the premium they charge. Unfortunately, 3Com has no equivilant reputation in this area.
Cheers,
RobN
While I agree the thought of lusers (even lusers with pilot licenses, as these are required for the Moller) flying cars is a bit frightening, fortunately the Moller flying car does not rely on traditional wing surfaces to provide lift, rather the 4x ram jets do this job. As to underpowered, I find 500 mph plenty fast, but then I'm old. Your analogy to a brick is actually more accurate for the Moller design than you may realize ;)
Having watched the Moller development for the last +20 years, from "flying saucer" to "Jetson-mobile", I gaze fondly at the die-cast model on my desk and dream of the day when I'll have a spare million or two to blow on a car.
Cheers,
robnator
ok... not having had the opportunity to try THAT one, I'll bow to superior experience.
Cheers!
Paintball -- the most fun you can have with your pants on.
Seriously (OK, MORE seriously), you can paintball in many more environments than you can lasertag (plus you avoid the toxic complications of Zombie Smoke), and the (small but undeniable) pain of taking a hit is a far better motivator to stealthy movement and quick reactions than a bit of light.
Cheers,
Rob
not /. ;)
maybe we should be a bit more concerned with questions such as, "Can humans be saved?" (not to mention "how?") and leave the hand-wringing over a 3 hour entertainment not due to be screened for a year to those with too much free time and too few free neurons who naturally gravitate to bottom-feeding.
robn8r --not intending inflamation or offense (but donning fire-retardant duds), says "sheesh, gedalife!"
One should hardly expect unbiased information when beginning one's inquiry from such a restricted perspective. :p
robn8r --thinks people should be monitored, not forests.
Rob loves his job! Really, I'm not just forcing him to type this at gunpoint. Rob likes getting computers to do what we think they're supposed to be doing, even if this may too-often envolve cursing and the pounding of fists. Rob works for Gracenote (that "other" evil empire ;), and none of his users try the cup-holder trick. OK, maybe one has...
I disagree regarding craigslist's (or any good resource) eventual devolution into uselessness, such as that which has marked Monster -- mostly it is the quality of people (term used loosely) using the board: Monster is overrun by headhunter orgs posting not-quite false jobs to lure a constant feed for their body hoppers. This generates a situation where the board looses apparent functionality. Since many organizations post to craigslist directly, the effect of the typical strategies of "placement services" is diluted and may not lead to the degradation ThingOne predicts (my hope, anyways).
mod insightful: google is teh win, Yahoo! is on the slide, imo.
sorry if this just expands on Leto2's point, but it's stating the obvious, which is my special skill: but, uhm, doesn't _everyone_ do this? I think it's called "staying in business" or "enhancing shareholder value" or some other bumfuck euphemism for capitalism.
* * * robnator says "sheesh! gedalife!"
Wow Coward, I'm very sorry to hear of your and your wife's experiences with Macintosh users, as I would be for anyone abused by self-centered bigots, or, say for instance, who'd just had their dog run over. Somehow I'm sure you were mistakenly identified with the witless morons who like to carry on such debates as which computer is "best." There is certainly some good advice in the other replies here about places and circumstances where your questions would be welcomed and answered with some courtesy and consideration.
Here's my two cents: while it is understandable that a group representing one tenth of a larger group may react defensively toward the larger fraction, it is NOT excusable, and DOES NOT justify poor behaviour.
Hemos and D\monix should check their posts for ACCURACY before putting them up. This kind of tripe is what makes life tough for those of us with working brains. Note for humans -> simply sterilizing anything by any means is hardly a basis for running up the "mutant" flag. Enough worry surrounds this topic without half-baked "authorities" stating unreasoned fears as truth, or using flash-point vocabulary to inhance their image.
is good software made by responsible vendors. As a corporate IT shill,I'm the guy you want to hear from, and here's what I say: Shoot down legislation making it impossible to impose standards of performance. Stand up to corporation lobbyists who seek special privilege. In short, stay involved but use your brain! Consumers of all kinds need protection from the monopolistic megalithic manufacturers who stifle competition on the one hand and then provide poorly engineered solutions where once an industry prospered.
Remember hyacinthus, electricity, clean water piped to your house, natural gas, etc. started out as so called "luxuries" too. It amazes me even now how many self-proclaimed computer illiterates go balistic if their email craps out for 15 minutes... Imagine what we'll be like if we give Internet the 100 years of infrastructure that the power grid has benefitted from.
At least Mattaeus had balls enough to show his name supporting ignorance at the best and sinister corproate conspiriacy at the worst. Nameless Coward has no clue. I am not "liberal" but can clearly see deregulation improperly promulgated, as it is by its usual proponents (the regulated), flops horribly to the extreme expense of the consumer. (OK, so now you can tell I'm from California ;-)
I couldn't have said it better than michael -- let's all hand over our guns and sign up for barcode tattoos while we're at it!
Hah! And guns don't kill people...
I've always liked Bill's (Shakespeare) solution "the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers"...
Sorry, if you think U.S. judges are appointed for their expertise (vs. their political connections) you're from another PLANET, not just another country...
Too late, there are already several corps doing exactly this...
I must say, M. Boyles gets 100% here. As the guy quoted saying "rather chew my right arm off than install NT," I fully agree with the "best tool for the job at hand" school (and thank the Lord mine so far is easier using MacOS/Linuxppc/Solaris). My OS may be better than yours (for some things), and vice versa. Doesn't mean either of us are dain bramaged. Cheers, Rob
Jurri, I think never is the answer. Not having read the other responses to your question, I'll chip in my understanding is some of the OSX can be ported to any *nix-running platform, but no Aqua interface or other hardware to kernel optimizing. Whether this will ever happen is another question entirely, but I suspect it's got the same answer ;-)
Cheers,
Rob