I don't live in the US so why has this advert been posted on the front page of an international web site? It should have been posted to Google Ads where it would have to be paid for.
Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way... Windows gets in your face. The whole Windows paradigm is about the applications. What's important is the application. Christ, look at the way you access applications through the All Programs menu. A big long list ordered usually by software house... WTF? Then there's all the application icons on the desktop.
It's a DESKTOP paradigm... Y'know... files and folders... What's important is the data, the file. The application is irrelevant, it's just something to allow you to manipulate the data. Windows gets it all arse backwards which is why it's a pain to use. Ubuntu and OSX are easier to work with.
XP ain't broke, so don't try to fix it, M$!!! XP is broken.
Um... The Storm Worm... etc etc etc etc and the tens of thousands of others. Your problem if you use Windows is that you are fucked if you upgrade and fucked if you don't.
Inflation of the money supply, inflation of grades, inflation of patent numbers, inflation of job titles...
It's really all the same thing. The more there is of something the less any individual item is worth. Money, grades, patents. Yet the vast majority seem to have some significant difficulty with that concept. More is better than less. Thing is, you don't actually have more, you have less but with a bigger number. Interesting. I wonder if there's a level of I.Q. where people simply can't understand that concept... Maybe they'll be happy when they earn a zillionty dollars per year each, have a PhD and are titled "Captain of the World".
By creating thousands, tens of thousands of patents you aren't actually producing anything of value, you're simply throwing doubt on the value of all patents.
Real value is relatively unrelated to inflation. The economy only grows for real (real stuff like chairs, tables, cars) at a couple of percent a year. Real academic achievement is still hard, only a small proportion are up to it and only a small number of patents are really innovative and being captain of the world doesn't help much if you are still sweeping streets.
Essentially, inflation is deceit. People who inflate are at the very best, liars and more usually swindlers planning fraud.
Poverty is, basically, a vicious circle. You don't get a loan because you're poor, and you can't get out of poverty without some money to industrialize with. Of course. Loans have debts attached.
And, yes, I can understand why the banks don't want to risk that money.) Really? Do you know where the banks get the money they loan out? Why they were willing to risk it on people with no income, no job and no assets?
now IT departments will require passwords to be 30 characters long, with at least 2 digits, at least 2 puncuation marks, mixed case, and use Unicode characters from at least 8 different international languages. Nope... Now, we want blood!
Our monetary system is a Ponzi scheme. It requires exponential growth simply to function. With it goes national pensions which require an exponentially growing population to pay for an ageing one.
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Call me when they can deliver high explosives personally to a set of GPS co-ordinates.
I don't live in the US so why has this advert been posted on the front page of an international web site? It should have been posted to Google Ads where it would have to be paid for.
Vista is shit unless you upgrade all your machines?
Hmmm. Lets see, 100,000 systems in your big corporation at say $1000 each is oooh one hundred million dollars.
And you all wonder why I.T. departments are being outsourced. I mean, DOH!
It's a DESKTOP paradigm... Y'know... files and folders... What's important is the data, the file. The application is irrelevant, it's just something to allow you to manipulate the data. Windows gets it all arse backwards which is why it's a pain to use. Ubuntu and OSX are easier to work with.
I have another one for you to try here... If you dare: http://tinyurl.com/55xgn
http://wubi-installer.org/
Just try it.
Um... The Storm Worm
You should be used to it by now.
Music industry, film industry.
The salient feature being their desperate war against the basic nature of information.
Isn't it?
Sorry... Does anything more need to be said?
OK, lets talk inflation.
Inflation of the money supply, inflation of grades, inflation of patent numbers, inflation of job titles...
It's really all the same thing. The more there is of something the less any individual item is worth. Money, grades, patents. Yet the vast majority seem to have some significant difficulty with that concept. More is better than less. Thing is, you don't actually have more, you have less but with a bigger number. Interesting. I wonder if there's a level of I.Q. where people simply can't understand that concept... Maybe they'll be happy when they earn a zillionty dollars per year each, have a PhD and are titled "Captain of the World".
By creating thousands, tens of thousands of patents you aren't actually producing anything of value, you're simply throwing doubt on the value of all patents.
Real value is relatively unrelated to inflation. The economy only grows for real (real stuff like chairs, tables, cars) at a couple of percent a year. Real academic achievement is still hard, only a small proportion are up to it and only a small number of patents are really innovative and being captain of the world doesn't help much if you are still sweeping streets.
Essentially, inflation is deceit. People who inflate are at the very best, liars and more usually swindlers planning fraud.
I actually worked in the lab where they developed the machine. UMIST in Manchester.
They did commercialise it. The technology is used all over the place.
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/suppl_1/i252
http://www.wordspy.com/words/noseonachip.asp
Of course, I'm sure Caltech can patent it can sue the bastards into oblivion.
Actually most locks can be picked just by bumping them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr23tpWX8lM
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/bump-keying-1-keys-open-any-lock/
Then of course, most doors can be forced in seconds by a shove.
I keep looking, going "holy fuck", then shelving the idea for another year.
I know the architecture I want. Just can't justify it... Xen might.
I've heard "paying through the nose" but not "paying out the teeth".
You aren't a typical computer user. Neither is anyone else who uses Subversion.
35,000,000 metres ...
CEOs? No, you aren't thinking big enough.
Our monetary system is a Ponzi scheme. It requires exponential growth simply to function. With it goes national pensions which require an exponentially growing population to pay for an ageing one.
Ah. This explains volumes about American foreign policy...
All the intelligent criminals are already at the top. They simply made what they do legal.
Because economic sanctions have turned Cuba from a communist enclave to capitalist paradise.
Hmmm... Windows as a threat to national security ...
Imagines SWAT teams dodging chairs as they storm Microsoft headquarters to screams of "You'll never take me alive copper!"