I just tried to cruise the comments section using the beta, and that is where things are the worst. There is no quote parent button, and it made me copy and paste the reply title by hand. There is no link to get a permanent reference to a single comment. Comment text does not show bold or italic. Quoted text is merely italic, but not indented or anything.
This horrible re-write is particularly insulting because the old site is relatively good, minus a few quirks (like having comments formatted with html only). A superficial design change should not need to break so much functionality, unless they are actively trying to eliminate it.
I am not arguing that support contracts are worthless, reality could not be further from the truth. What irks me about Cisco is that they are selling this security critical hardware, but not providing trivial security patches to end users (who have already spent thousands of dollars on Ci$co stuff) that do not have the private jet service. Furthermore, they live the manufacturers wet dream of killing the used market by not providing support (and trivial security fixes) for used hardware.
Another thought is that redundant hardware provides seconds of downtime while even the most expensive service contract is going to result in hours....
It shouldn't be a legal mandate either. Keeping already released patches available should be a courtesy that all vendors willingly do. The good will encourages repeat buys. Eventually, vendor support will be so expensive and so unappealing that people will just run a free unix on commodity hardware because they get better help from internet forums than they do from vendors.
I won't touch Cisco gear with a 10 ft pole, and this is exactly why.
This is not pay for support. This is pay for firmware updates. Sure, they can charge for them when nobody else does... but I can also buy elsewhere. Fuck them, and Cisco can suck it too. Correcting bugs in 512k of firmware code is hardly adding a new feature, and doing what you are supposed to anyways is hardly premium support.
It might not have been popular in the new market, but we never had a problem selling one in the used market. It was one of those vehicles before its time, and you really can see its influence in newer offerings.
They have this motor mount that breaks all the time, and you can easily see it from the top of the engine. Only much later do you realize that it is a five hour job to change it. Most PT Cruisers have a lot of engine vibration...
I'm guessing the only reason this story is here is so they can rack a couple OMG APPLE IS SO ARROGANT FUCK THEM posts from 7-digit newcomers around here.
It's somewhat misleading to call the current versions "Mr Hubbert's predictions" since he died in 1989 and we keep changing the charts as new numbers are revealed by the oil industry.
Very valid point. Also worth noting is that the notion of peak oil was around long before Hubert too.
You can find scans of old books and journal articles around on the internet, although it is nowhere that you would consider to be reputable. Go to your nearest university library, and look for older sources on peak oil (think 1930-1970). This might include looking at musty old books, or possibly even using a microfilm reader. The doom forecast by many of these sorts of articles was imminent in nature, and charts were typically provided to support the notion. If you are interested in the subject, the history lesson would certainly be interesting... supposing the books have not disappeared.
No, the post is not prejudicial against Koreans, but rather a commentary on the political situation there. How dare you cry genocide anywhere else, while ignoring the concentration camps and famine in DPRK? Unlike you, I have at least bothered to inform myself about the situation in any way. Start here: http://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pd...
Perhaps all their propaganda is true. You will never know unless you go there. However you will never go there because you know that place is full of crazy inferiors who do you share your enlightened view of humanity that you do.
Not even Kim Jung Un is stopping you, just don't leave the official tour group!
I then kept moving in the tube and five other Korean men also were knocked to the ground in their effort to stop my tube from going off a 100 foot cliff that was located at the bottom of the bunny slope.
North Korea, the only country where humans are cheaper than a fence.
Different contractor.... Typical business practice would dictate that they not start working on the project until there is some prospect of making money.
Unicomp bought the machines to build the old IBM keyboards, they are the only ones I use. Here is the best keyboard available today:
http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB40P4A
Who really wins if the FAA/FCC ban inflight cell coverage? The airlines that have built a pay service for internet connections. If we allow cellular coverage in the air, they lose a revenue stream. The airlines already have processes in place for annoying passengers. If you are really annoyed by the person next to you they don't need new rules to deal with yapping on a cell phone. On the other hand, I would enjoy being able to read news while traveling. I would enjoy getting work done with reference materials available while traveling. Please don't knee jerk away a gain for consumers.
Nobody wins. Airlines are prevented from providing inflight cellular service. Consumers are prevented from having more choices.
Unless the executive branch of government wants more control of our personal lives, in that case at least some entity wins.
I would be fine with SMS texting only. But allowing people to talk on their phone, would be a huge discomfort to passengers. The problem is most people (including me) talk louder when on the phone. A little of this falls on the lack of good technology to allow quiet conversations to take place on phone calls.
In the end I hope FCC continues the ban of talking on the phone while in flight, but allowing texting.
The silly thing about this debate is that the FCC regulates RF spectrum, and the FAA regulates aviation safety, but the only thing anyone can say about cell phones on airplanes is that people use them in an annoying manner... sometimes. Complain to your airline, friends, business associates, and family... but please do not stand in the way of technology to prevent what you think might be a mild annoyance.
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I just tried to cruise the comments section using the beta, and that is where things are the worst. There is no quote parent button, and it made me copy and paste the reply title by hand. There is no link to get a permanent reference to a single comment. Comment text does not show bold or italic. Quoted text is merely italic, but not indented or anything.
This horrible re-write is particularly insulting because the old site is relatively good, minus a few quirks (like having comments formatted with html only). A superficial design change should not need to break so much functionality, unless they are actively trying to eliminate it.
Well, aren't you just an entitled little shit.
He is entitled to leave and not come back. In fact so are you, please exercise that entitlement.
I just canceled an HP order for a significant number of machines in favor of Dell, thanks to this article.
I am not arguing that support contracts are worthless, reality could not be further from the truth. What irks me about Cisco is that they are selling this security critical hardware, but not providing trivial security patches to end users (who have already spent thousands of dollars on Ci$co stuff) that do not have the private jet service. Furthermore, they live the manufacturers wet dream of killing the used market by not providing support (and trivial security fixes) for used hardware.
Another thought is that redundant hardware provides seconds of downtime while even the most expensive service contract is going to result in hours....
It shouldn't be a legal mandate either. Keeping already released patches available should be a courtesy that all vendors willingly do. The good will encourages repeat buys. Eventually, vendor support will be so expensive and so unappealing that people will just run a free unix on commodity hardware because they get better help from internet forums than they do from vendors.
I won't touch Cisco gear with a 10 ft pole, and this is exactly why.
does not qualify as news
This is not pay for support. This is pay for firmware updates. Sure, they can charge for them when nobody else does... but I can also buy elsewhere. Fuck them, and Cisco can suck it too. Correcting bugs in 512k of firmware code is hardly adding a new feature, and doing what you are supposed to anyways is hardly premium support.
No.
The article seems to be loosely based around a single anecdote? Is there something I missed?
It might not have been popular in the new market, but we never had a problem selling one in the used market. It was one of those vehicles before its time, and you really can see its influence in newer offerings.
They have this motor mount that breaks all the time, and you can easily see it from the top of the engine. Only much later do you realize that it is a five hour job to change it. Most PT Cruisers have a lot of engine vibration...
What other car comes with a center console that is also a removable cooler?!?
I'm guessing the only reason this story is here is so they can rack a couple OMG APPLE IS SO ARROGANT FUCK THEM posts from 7-digit newcomers around here.
They are arrogant; and indeed, fuck them.
It's somewhat misleading to call the current versions "Mr Hubbert's predictions" since he died in 1989 and we keep changing the charts as new numbers are revealed by the oil industry.
Very valid point. Also worth noting is that the notion of peak oil was around long before Hubert too.
You can find scans of old books and journal articles around on the internet, although it is nowhere that you would consider to be reputable. Go to your nearest university library, and look for older sources on peak oil (think 1930-1970). This might include looking at musty old books, or possibly even using a microfilm reader. The doom forecast by many of these sorts of articles was imminent in nature, and charts were typically provided to support the notion. If you are interested in the subject, the history lesson would certainly be interesting... supposing the books have not disappeared.
Fusion power is also always a billion dollars away, too.
Mr Hubbert's predictions say gasoline will be pretty much obsolete by 2050 whatever happens.
You keep seeing that chart over and over again, just the peak is moved to the decade during which the chart is drawn.
Ol' slick willy
Don't forget about the concentration camps, where they will take three generations of your family for committing a crime.
Perhaps all their propaganda is true. You will never know unless you go there. However you will never go there because you know that place is full of crazy inferiors who do you share your enlightened view of humanity that you do.
Not even Kim Jung Un is stopping you, just don't leave the official tour group!
I then kept moving in the tube and five other Korean men also were knocked to the ground in their effort to stop my tube from going off a 100 foot cliff that was located at the bottom of the bunny slope.
North Korea, the only country where humans are cheaper than a fence.
I am SUPER CEREAL GUYS MAN BEAR PIG we have to fill the cave with MOLTEN LEAD.
Different contractor.... Typical business practice would dictate that they not start working on the project until there is some prospect of making money.
Unicomp bought the machines to build the old IBM keyboards, they are the only ones I use. Here is the best keyboard available today: http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB40P4A
Who really wins if the FAA/FCC ban inflight cell coverage? The airlines that have built a pay service for internet connections. If we allow cellular coverage in the air, they lose a revenue stream. The airlines already have processes in place for annoying passengers. If you are really annoyed by the person next to you they don't need new rules to deal with yapping on a cell phone. On the other hand, I would enjoy being able to read news while traveling. I would enjoy getting work done with reference materials available while traveling. Please don't knee jerk away a gain for consumers.
Nobody wins. Airlines are prevented from providing inflight cellular service. Consumers are prevented from having more choices.
Unless the executive branch of government wants more control of our personal lives, in that case at least some entity wins.
I would be fine with SMS texting only. But allowing people to talk on their phone, would be a huge discomfort to passengers. The problem is most people (including me) talk louder when on the phone. A little of this falls on the lack of good technology to allow quiet conversations to take place on phone calls. In the end I hope FCC continues the ban of talking on the phone while in flight, but allowing texting.
The silly thing about this debate is that the FCC regulates RF spectrum, and the FAA regulates aviation safety, but the only thing anyone can say about cell phones on airplanes is that people use them in an annoying manner... sometimes. Complain to your airline, friends, business associates, and family... but please do not stand in the way of technology to prevent what you think might be a mild annoyance.