I've done roughly the same thing that you did but went just a bit further.
I created my Facebook account, put nothing personal into my profile, then unplugged my computer and put it in the closet under my stairs. Haven't touched it in months.
I work exclusively on a laptop and do not want to change this.
Consumer laptops and their components are engineered and manufactured based on priorities that the market dictates. Were I in front of you, I might well pick up your laptop and smack you in the head with it: You are NOT using a device optimized for mass storage.
Your laptop's design priorities are: 1. low price, and 2. small size. In that order.*
Notice that I didn't mention reliability, speed, or storage capacity.
In addition to the laptop computer that you already have, I recommend that you get a desktop computer (ridiculously cheap desktop computers normally outperform most laptops and are much more reliable). It's a realistic, grown-up thing to do. * Unless your laptop is a Toshiba, which are sometimes no lighter or smaller than desktop tower computers.
This will either lead to segments of our military being strictly only for homosexuals or strictly not for homosexuals, without regard to what might be best for military purposes.
This is a lose/lose/lose/lose move.
Wow, don't let the absence of any evidence get in your way, dude. You're on a roll!
She would completely self-destruct as a presidential candidate in a race. Look, she fucked up her last race so would making her the primary candidate go any better?
Her biggest problem is that she's a polarizing figure of a minority party. EOF.
I'm not from the Americas, but I thought the DHT only dealt with national security issues, terrorist threats, natural disasters, and other high priority issues that affected the country.
There you go... your publicly questioning the DHT has now gotten your name onto terrorist lists.
(Everyone take a knee and for a moment of silence for the late, great Joseph McCarthy.)
It's really amazing to me how many people on Slashdot lack even a minuscule awareness of how legislative politics works. I'm dumbfounded. But they can certainly act pissed off.
Maybe FoxNews can franchise in the UK. Then the Brits would get to hear their news commentators introduce stories with lines like, "Whoa, get a look at this!"
I just puked in my own mouth.
Can you imagine Walter Cronkite beginning a news item with, "Get a look at this!" He was a good journalist and, I hate to say this, but it is actually a merciful thing that he passed away somewhat recently.
"Drive for vacation instead of flying." When you only have two weeks' vacation time per year to begin with? Even if you haven't burned through half of that thanks to family care requirements, or the odd special occasion that you want to attend?
Sorry, folks, but we no longer live in a world where "do not fly" is an option for the majority of people.
You must live an a different but parallel world from mine. In my USA, most vacationers DON'T fly, they drive.
If it's like Mac OS X then it's still a step backwards because the native OS X apps cannot be run remotely (only X11 ones). That's removing a useful feature for no benefit (despite what people who don't know what they are talking about say, there is no performance penalty to network transparency, because locally it's all using shared memory).
A useful feature that no one uses. Hell, most people forgot X11 support for remote graphical sessions even exists. That feature made a big difference in the 80's but not now.
* You can not mount a network hard drive (without hacking it)
* You can not mount a usb hard drive (without hacking it)
* Format support is very limited. For example: you can not play xvid, divx and a bunch of other formats
I think that's a VERY funny observation that you made!
Seriously -- it has been tagged "Insightful" but it's just full of "Funny."
Yes, AppleTV will fail, utterly. Eventually Apple will make billions of dollars with it and the little geekfreeks on Slashdot will have all of the indignation that they crave.
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I've done roughly the same thing that you did but went just a bit further.
I created my Facebook account, put nothing personal into my profile, then unplugged my computer and put it in the closet under my stairs. Haven't touched it in months.
My policy seems to work well, too.
Consumer laptops and their components are engineered and manufactured based on priorities that the market dictates. Were I in front of you, I might well pick up your laptop and smack you in the head with it: You are NOT using a device optimized for mass storage.
Your laptop's design priorities are: 1. low price, and 2. small size. In that order.*
Notice that I didn't mention reliability, speed, or storage capacity.
In addition to the laptop computer that you already have, I recommend that you get a desktop computer (ridiculously cheap desktop computers normally outperform most laptops and are much more reliable). It's a realistic, grown-up thing to do.
* Unless your laptop is a Toshiba, which are sometimes
no lighter or smaller than desktop tower computers.
I think it's kinda sexy that she let loose, cursed, and even said, "fuck."
I hope they they had vigorous sex that night.
It's also hard to migrate 10 years' of emails to a new service (they make it hard, at least)....
I've got to say that just knowing that would make me work pretty hard to move away. That's me, though.
The site appears to have slashdotted by zillions of horny geeks.
You can hunt-n-peck or you can touch-type to write code. Both do the job but one will make you into an insecure pussy.
American children have a saying...
'When you point a finger at me, three point back at you."
Re-read your rant and think about it.
This will either lead to segments of our military being strictly only for homosexuals or strictly not for homosexuals, without regard to what might be best for military purposes.
This is a lose/lose/lose/lose move.
Wow, don't let the absence of any evidence get in your way, dude. You're on a roll!
Written to by read aloud by Captain Kirk?
Q: How do you know if someone has an iPhone?
A: They tell you.
Not true, we just assume everyone have them. (And they almost do.)
I haven't run antivirus software in years and I've never had a virus.
I've heard that one from Windows users before. You know what happens when I look into that claim? I find viruses every fucking time.
Palin is stupid. Some people just are.
She would completely self-destruct as a presidential candidate in a race. Look, she fucked up her last race so would making her the primary candidate go any better?
Her biggest problem is that she's a polarizing figure of a minority party. EOF.
For networking, no fucking way. Networking is stuck on Ethernet because networking uses Ethernet.
Methinks that you are young.
Could you elaborate on how all networking can only work on Ethernet and how that relates to it having been done successfully for years on FireWire?
I haven't used it myself, but I've seen it used.
Just be satisfied that each has to deal with the other.
To borrow a lyric from The Fabulous Thunderbirds:
How do you spell love?
M-O-N-E-Y.
I'm not from the Americas, but I thought the DHT only dealt with national security issues, terrorist threats, natural disasters, and other high priority issues that affected the country.
There you go... your publicly questioning the DHT has now gotten your name onto terrorist lists.
(Everyone take a knee and for a moment of silence for the late, great Joseph McCarthy.)
Fuck. Fuck, fuck. Fuck.
It's really amazing to me how many people on Slashdot lack even a minuscule awareness of how legislative politics works. I'm dumbfounded. But they can certainly act pissed off.
Maybe FoxNews can franchise in the UK. Then the Brits would get to hear their news commentators introduce stories with lines like, "Whoa, get a look at this!"
I just puked in my own mouth.
Can you imagine Walter Cronkite beginning a news item with, "Get a look at this!" He was a good journalist and, I hate to say this, but it is actually a merciful thing that he passed away somewhat recently.
"Drive for vacation instead of flying." When you only have two weeks' vacation time per year to begin with? Even if you haven't burned through half of that thanks to family care requirements, or the odd special occasion that you want to attend?
Sorry, folks, but we no longer live in a world where "do not fly" is an option for the majority of people.
You must live an a different but parallel world from mine. In my USA, most vacationers DON'T fly, they drive.
If it's like Mac OS X then it's still a step backwards because the native OS X apps cannot be run remotely (only X11 ones). That's removing a useful feature for no benefit (despite what people who don't know what they are talking about say, there is no performance penalty to network transparency, because locally it's all using shared memory).
A useful feature that no one uses. Hell, most people forgot X11 support for remote graphical sessions even exists. That feature made a big difference in the 80's but not now.
VNC, anyone?
I'm not knocking progress but...
This merely represents an improvement in dead-end technology (burning things to go places).
--Richard
But corporations are people!
Sure... yeah, sure they are. Same thing. <wince>
Gee, I do recall $5/gallon gasoline.
I also recall that people are creatures of habit to the point that they will kill to support their habits. Easily. Do you remember that?
* You can not mount a network hard drive (without hacking it)
* You can not mount a usb hard drive (without hacking it)
* Format support is very limited. For example: you can not play xvid, divx and a bunch of other formats
I think that's a VERY funny observation that you made!
Seriously -- it has been tagged "Insightful" but it's just full of "Funny."
Yes, AppleTV will fail, utterly. Eventually Apple will make billions of dollars with it and the little geekfreeks on Slashdot will have all of the indignation that they crave.