A lot of them also seem to have trouble distinguishing London from England.
I've never seen an American confuse London and England. However, I've known many Americans who professed (prior to being corrected) the mistaken belief that England is an island (which it is not; it is quite firmly attached to both Scotland and Wales).
"Software firewall" is an oxymoron. A firewall is a physical box that sits between two networks, filtering the exchange of information between them.
For those of us who actually have firewalls, having the operating system muck things up with a "software firewall" is just a nuisance. For those who don't, it's a false and dangerous sense of security.
Not really, no. Using the same standards for measurement, the diameter of the sun is over 800,000 miles, whereas the diameter of the comet is only a few miles. OTOH, if you want to include the coma, then the diameter of Holmes is over 800,000 miles, but the diameter of the sun is over ten billion miles (assuming you measure the short distance across the coma/heliopause and not down the length of their respective tails).
Even more importantly, can't you guys realise that none of these jokes are funny?
Hmm. If you understand that humor is subjective, you will realize that what you've just posted is stupid. Alternately, if you think humor is objective, well, then you're just plain stupid.
Your post could be made in a way that doesn't make you look stupid. You could say, "Don't you people realize that I don't find any of these jokes funny?" Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?
Why would they believe they were all going to die? I'm sorry, but if I'm in the back of a plane flying over water with an experienced military pilot who says he's going to ditch, I'm only likely to think I'm going to die if we're ditching into the Arctic Ocean.
Yes, ditching a plane is dangerous, but you seem to think this soldiers had just received a death sentence, rather than just being told they were about to do something dangerous. Soldiers do dangerous things all the time. They go into these situations knowing they may die, but they rarely think they will.
while the online rental locations have started to appear in the past few years the size of their operations is not comparable to the dip in the sales at brick and mortar operations.
Interesting. How many titles are being rented by the online services per month, and how large is that dip in the brick & mortar rentals? I'd be curious to know the exact figures here (and I assume you have those, since you'd need to in order to make that comparison).
You mean you got a refund from the laptop manufacturer? Otherwise, Microsoft has your money.
That doesn't follow. I didn't buy Vista with my laptop, nor did I get any sort of Vista refund from the manufacturer (Apple), but I'm still pretty sure Microsoft doesn't have my money.
Um, that's clearly invalid methodology. It's a long-running tactic for sellers like Apple or Dell to mark *down* their base systems and make up for it by marking *up* the addons. Thus, people see the cheap price on the front page for the base system, then configure it as they want pay the heafy markup on the adds. Thus, trying to judge the markup of the base system based on the markup of the addons will generate ridiculous results. (This same methodology could, for example, be used to "prove" Dell can already make machines below the OLPC price goals, without even resorting to cheaper hardware. It doesn't work that way...)
Then since the Constitution would override any law passed by Congress Bill CLinton would become the Elected President even though Congress passed a law that disallows a person from serving a third term as President.
Someone else has already pointed out that it's a constitutional amendment (the 22nd) that prevents Bill Clinton from being elected a third time. I'll just add that there's actually no amendment or law that prevents someone from serving a third term as President, only one that prevents them from being elected. He could legally serve a third term if he got the job by some other means (e.g. if we was appointed Secretary of State, and then the Prez, VP, and heads of Congress were killed or resigned en masse or something).
Yes and no. You really don't need them. In my experience, the Logitech mice work just fine without the extra crap. But it gives you a bunch of whiz-bang features I'm sure you'll never miss...
Then Apple should've tested the install with APE installed on Tiger. Right?
No. Nobody supports APE. Complain to any software vendor about any problem with any Mac application you're using, and the first thing they'll tell you to do is remove all the APE crap, then get back to them if there's still a problem without APE installed.
If we really did accomplish this, imagine how much faster we could progress technologically......allow devs to drop into one of these things and we could have software that would normally take months to build developed in mere minutes!
Technological singularity without creating AI? Count me in! Less renegade robots that way and I can drop my Old Glory robot insurance.
That's actually one of the scenarios for the Singularity: no need to develop truly independent AIs, just augment the human brain until it has that speed and capabilities. Then the augmented brains come up with even more clever ideas on how to augment themselves further, etc.
Eventually the line between human and computer will blur anyhow, and it'll be debatable what an "AI" is...
Yup. LAMP on the servers, OS X on the dev box, Windows on the fun box (with all my favorite PC games installed). Windows is on the dev box too, although usually running under Parallels, and generally not that often. For various reasons, I happen to like all three operating systems. I've never understood why liking one of them is supposed to make me hate one or both of the other two. Nor do I want some uber-system that would supposedly take the best of all three and give me everything I want in one package. People don't understand that there are trade-offs in any design, and no matter which way you go, it'll make it better in some situations and worse in others. There is not and never can be a single OS that works best for all people in all situations. Better to have diversity, and use the best tool for each task at hand.
Incidentally, this makes for a quick and easy touchstone for judging someone's intelligence and reasonability. Ask them, "What's the best X?" If they answer with anything other than a question, "Best for what?", they're probably an unintelligent or unreasoning zealot of some sort or another. The question itself is nonsensical -- without defining "at what", the term "best" makes no sense. The fact that the question makes sense to them and that they even have an answer is a sign of muddled thinking.
Re #4: This one used to bug me until I figured out I could set the GIMP move tool to always use the active layer and not to switch which layer I'm working on based on where I click the move tool. Of course, this makes moving multiple layers around more cumbersome (you have to first select the layer, then move it) but if you were with transparent layers a lot, it's the only way to not go stark-raving mad.
Besides, carrying one Mk84 does not a bomber make.
Historically, hasn't one bomb has been the payload of the majority of bombers used in war? Or maybe one big bomb and a few smaller ones (e.g. a Stuka might have had one 1000kg bomb and four 50kg bombs).
The really sad thing is, Microsoft Word 3.02 was my favorite word processor for the Mac for many years. It really was the best Mac word processor during the DOS days. What does DOS have to do with Mac word processors? Nothing, but when Windows got big, Microsoft ported Word to Windows, then ported it back to the Mac. The result was the worst word processor for the Mac ever. Within the span of a few years, Microsoft went from having the Mac's best word processor to having the worst.:(
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If Guy Fawkes had been an American who tried to blow up Congress, we'd have made a folk hero out of him. :p
Erm, you just asserted P and not P.
I've never seen an American confuse London and England. However, I've known many Americans who professed (prior to being corrected) the mistaken belief that England is an island (which it is not; it is quite firmly attached to both Scotland and Wales).
Hopefully you can just turn the bloody thing off.
"Software firewall" is an oxymoron. A firewall is a physical box that sits between two networks, filtering the exchange of information between them.
For those of us who actually have firewalls, having the operating system muck things up with a "software firewall" is just a nuisance. For those who don't, it's a false and dangerous sense of security.
Not really, no. Using the same standards for measurement, the diameter of the sun is over 800,000 miles, whereas the diameter of the comet is only a few miles. OTOH, if you want to include the coma, then the diameter of Holmes is over 800,000 miles, but the diameter of the sun is over ten billion miles (assuming you measure the short distance across the coma/heliopause and not down the length of their respective tails).
Let me guess, your trucks are hauling around crates full of Western Digital drives? ;)
Evidence suggests Mark Twain rarely said things he actually believed to be true. ;)
Hmm. If you understand that humor is subjective, you will realize that what you've just posted is stupid. Alternately, if you think humor is objective, well, then you're just plain stupid.
Your post could be made in a way that doesn't make you look stupid. You could say, "Don't you people realize that I don't find any of these jokes funny?" Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?
Ditching an airplane rarely results in a fiery inferno. Something about all that water...
(You do know what it means to "ditch" a plane, right?)
Why would they believe they were all going to die? I'm sorry, but if I'm in the back of a plane flying over water with an experienced military pilot who says he's going to ditch, I'm only likely to think I'm going to die if we're ditching into the Arctic Ocean.
Yes, ditching a plane is dangerous, but you seem to think this soldiers had just received a death sentence, rather than just being told they were about to do something dangerous. Soldiers do dangerous things all the time. They go into these situations knowing they may die, but they rarely think they will.
Interesting. How many titles are being rented by the online services per month, and how large is that dip in the brick & mortar rentals? I'd be curious to know the exact figures here (and I assume you have those, since you'd need to in order to make that comparison).
That doesn't follow. I didn't buy Vista with my laptop, nor did I get any sort of Vista refund from the manufacturer (Apple), but I'm still pretty sure Microsoft doesn't have my money.
Um, that's clearly invalid methodology. It's a long-running tactic for sellers like Apple or Dell to mark *down* their base systems and make up for it by marking *up* the addons. Thus, people see the cheap price on the front page for the base system, then configure it as they want pay the heafy markup on the adds. Thus, trying to judge the markup of the base system based on the markup of the addons will generate ridiculous results. (This same methodology could, for example, be used to "prove" Dell can already make machines below the OLPC price goals, without even resorting to cheaper hardware. It doesn't work that way...)
Someone else has already pointed out that it's a constitutional amendment (the 22nd) that prevents Bill Clinton from being elected a third time. I'll just add that there's actually no amendment or law that prevents someone from serving a third term as President, only one that prevents them from being elected. He could legally serve a third term if he got the job by some other means (e.g. if we was appointed Secretary of State, and then the Prez, VP, and heads of Congress were killed or resigned en masse or something).
Yes and no. You really don't need them. In my experience, the Logitech mice work just fine without the extra crap. But it gives you a bunch of whiz-bang features I'm sure you'll never miss...
No. Nobody supports APE. Complain to any software vendor about any problem with any Mac application you're using, and the first thing they'll tell you to do is remove all the APE crap, then get back to them if there's still a problem without APE installed.
That's actually one of the scenarios for the Singularity: no need to develop truly independent AIs, just augment the human brain until it has that speed and capabilities. Then the augmented brains come up with even more clever ideas on how to augment themselves further, etc.
Eventually the line between human and computer will blur anyhow, and it'll be debatable what an "AI" is...
Yup. LAMP on the servers, OS X on the dev box, Windows on the fun box (with all my favorite PC games installed). Windows is on the dev box too, although usually running under Parallels, and generally not that often. For various reasons, I happen to like all three operating systems. I've never understood why liking one of them is supposed to make me hate one or both of the other two. Nor do I want some uber-system that would supposedly take the best of all three and give me everything I want in one package. People don't understand that there are trade-offs in any design, and no matter which way you go, it'll make it better in some situations and worse in others. There is not and never can be a single OS that works best for all people in all situations. Better to have diversity, and use the best tool for each task at hand.
Incidentally, this makes for a quick and easy touchstone for judging someone's intelligence and reasonability. Ask them, "What's the best X?" If they answer with anything other than a question, "Best for what?", they're probably an unintelligent or unreasoning zealot of some sort or another. The question itself is nonsensical -- without defining "at what", the term "best" makes no sense. The fact that the question makes sense to them and that they even have an answer is a sign of muddled thinking.
Re #4: This one used to bug me until I figured out I could set the GIMP move tool to always use the active layer and not to switch which layer I'm working on based on where I click the move tool. Of course, this makes moving multiple layers around more cumbersome (you have to first select the layer, then move it) but if you were with transparent layers a lot, it's the only way to not go stark-raving mad.
Historically, hasn't one bomb has been the payload of the majority of bombers used in war? Or maybe one big bomb and a few smaller ones (e.g. a Stuka might have had one 1000kg bomb and four 50kg bombs).
You can't overcome a problem if you don't first admit you have it. ;)
(I can hear the whooshing already...)
Hard links. :)
Of course, this just exposes the hidden truth: on typical unix filesystems, folders and filenames are just labels.
Nope. Already is, but no IMAP. :(
No way, that dude is righteous! :D
The really sad thing is, Microsoft Word 3.02 was my favorite word processor for the Mac for many years. It really was the best Mac word processor during the DOS days. What does DOS have to do with Mac word processors? Nothing, but when Windows got big, Microsoft ported Word to Windows, then ported it back to the Mac. The result was the worst word processor for the Mac ever. Within the span of a few years, Microsoft went from having the Mac's best word processor to having the worst. :(