Move to Indiana, unless our asshat of a governor converts us to DST,:(
Well, I think our previous two governors (not to mention our previous speaker of the house) were more the asshats; they wouldn't even discuss it because they were too busy taxing us into our current hole. Mitch Daniels is at least honest about it: he's mainly doing it because it gives companies one less excuse to move/invest here. Hawaii and Arizona, being those trendy COOL places and a bit more isolated, don't feel the effect of it that we do.
Personally, I dislike DST and didn't see any advantage to it when I've lived elsewhere. Really, there is only one legitimate excuse for adopting DST: the rest of the world has. For better or for worse, that is the world we live in.
Don't even mention the Newton in Steve's presence. He'll kick you in the nuts, pour hot tar into your hair, go over to your house and kill your cat, then piss in your corn flakes, all the while muttering, "Goddamn sugar water salesman."
Then he'll get angry and violent.
That said, does anyone else remember the Inkwell technology in OS X? I've heard nothing about it since 10.2 was released, though it looks pretty cool. It's was announced, considered a saleable feature, and then nothing. Odd. I wonder if something is cooking, or if something was cooking but got cancelled.
The UN is like government without all the efficiency, accountability, and purpose. I wouldn't trust them with snake control in Ireland. Their competence is proportional to the least corrupt and least competent among them. If they start regulating the internet, OS X will be open to a multitude of viruses, BSD will become insecure, and/. will be a bastion of MicroSoft advocacy! Chaos,! Dogs and cats living together!
Guess why the US lags in mobile phone use? - stupid monopolies doing stupid things and the customers having to take it as it's the only game in town - literally sometimes.
Actually, the real reason is that the land line infrastructure in the US isn't the complete crap it is in other countries. I've been to a lot of countries overseas and worked with quite a few foreigners here in the US. I know that, at one time, it would take up to six months to get a land line phone in Germany. The union got the government to make it illegal for anyone else to hook up a phone, and they would dig a new trench from the box to your house for every new hookup, then dig it up when you had it disconnected.
And from what I've heard, the situation in India was dire.
So if you're blaming government monopolies and stupid monopolies, you're partly right, but probably not in the way you thought.
... a fine art professor who has difficulty sending.jpgs in email and didn't know what an iPod was but she bought it with her laptop 'cus the guy at the Apple store said there would be a discount buying them together (really, she's that clueless)
What?! A clueless fine arts professor?!?!?! I am shocked, SHOCKED!!! I say, to hear of such a thing!
Sincerely,
Average person with a degree in a hard science
Maybe in the private sector, but in government (as the article discusses), it is extremely hard to get someone fired. Hearings, evidence, the prying eyes of watchdog groups...
After two+ years in DC at a well-known space agency which shall remain nameless, I believe that you can't remove government workers with nuclear weaponry and a backhoe. I was there as a contractor during the shutdown of 95-96, and when the civil servants were gone, we got a ton more work done.
I'm an MCSE and I for one am insulted by you comparing me to a Mensa member!
I'm a Unix programmer and I for one would be insulted by your being insulted if I just weren't so damn bemused by someone having the/bravery|idiocy/ to admit to being an MCSE on slashdot.
Most recently I was listening to an address made by a respected journalist, can't remember the name. It was a serious kind of speech but people kept clapping whenever he made a point. It was lame. I felt like the audience was desparate to tell the guy they could understand him and that they weren't dumb and were keeping up.
That's because we're so used to journalists and so-called experts considering us to have the intellectual capacity of a UN politician that when someone speaks to us intelligently, we get excited, even if we think the person is wrong.
Seems to me that Motorola can complain all they want about Apple. If they delay their product out of annoyace at Steve, they're the ones who will lose revenue, not Apple. Apple is going to continue to sell iPods with or without Motorola.
Seems daft to me. All I can think of is that some Motorola marketing wanker is doing a CYA.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
Netcraft confirms it. Firewire is dying. The writing is on the wall. It's in crayon and poop.
Not only that, but the CNET article quoted someone named Susan Kevorkian!!!! Firewire must be deaded, like Bluebottle vs. Kenny in a Goon Show/South Park cage match!
You've got a mouse? You're lucky! When I was a lad, we had to make do with an Apple ][ with half a byte of RAM -- [SHUTS UP AS THE REST OF/. SETS UPON HIM WITH STAVES]
Sure, OSX is pretty, but when you are typing or doing "real" work it wont matter.
I dunno. I can spend all day on my iMac and have no eye strain, but after an hour on my XP/NT machines, using a high-quality display, I need to take a break. I've tried just about every setting there is, but no such luck.
Perhaps we Mac people are jutht too thenthitive. *belch* *scratch* *grunt*
You can't go entirely by that. For example, the moon is pretty large compared to the earth, more than 1% of the planet's mass. Would that make us a double planet? Afterall, there are double stars with a higher mass ratio.
Part of what makes Titan interesting is its atmosphere and the presence of methane, potentially in solid and liquid form. Mercury is far too close to the sun to have an atmosphere; anything it had has been heated to escape velocity.
OTOH, Mercury has a pretty strong magnetic field for something that rotates so slowly. It must be almost entirely iron under the crust, and while that might not interest geeks such as we, I am sure that at some point it will become very interesting to some humans.
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This reminds me of an old joke: The other day I got a cable modem. I went to eBay while watching CSPAN and bought a Senator.
- Move to Indiana, unless our asshat of a governor converts us to DST,
:(
Well, I think our previous two governors (not to mention our previous speaker of the house) were more the asshats; they wouldn't even discuss it because they were too busy taxing us into our current hole. Mitch Daniels is at least honest about it: he's mainly doing it because it gives companies one less excuse to move/invest here. Hawaii and Arizona, being those trendy COOL places and a bit more isolated, don't feel the effect of it that we do.Personally, I dislike DST and didn't see any advantage to it when I've lived elsewhere. Really, there is only one legitimate excuse for adopting DST: the rest of the world has. For better or for worse, that is the world we live in.
- Microsoft to partner with Krusty the Clown?
More like George SteinbrennerThen he'll get angry and violent.
That said, does anyone else remember the Inkwell technology in OS X? I've heard nothing about it since 10.2 was released, though it looks pretty cool. It's was announced, considered a saleable feature, and then nothing. Odd. I wonder if something is cooking, or if something was cooking but got cancelled.
Tempting as it is, I admit.
Actually, the real reason is that the land line infrastructure in the US isn't the complete crap it is in other countries. I've been to a lot of countries overseas and worked with quite a few foreigners here in the US. I know that, at one time, it would take up to six months to get a land line phone in Germany. The union got the government to make it illegal for anyone else to hook up a phone, and they would dig a new trench from the box to your house for every new hookup, then dig it up when you had it disconnected.
And from what I've heard, the situation in India was dire.
So if you're blaming government monopolies and stupid monopolies, you're partly right, but probably not in the way you thought.
What?! A clueless fine arts professor?!?!?! I am shocked, SHOCKED!!! I say, to hear of such a thing!
Sincerely,
Average person with a degree in a hard science
After two+ years in DC at a well-known space agency which shall remain nameless, I believe that you can't remove government workers with nuclear weaponry and a backhoe. I was there as a contractor during the shutdown of 95-96, and when the civil servants were gone, we got a ton more work done.
I'm a Unix programmer and I for one would be insulted by your being insulted if I just weren't so damn bemused by someone having the /bravery|idiocy/ to admit to being an MCSE on slashdot.
That's because we're so used to journalists and so-called experts considering us to have the intellectual capacity of a UN politician that when someone speaks to us intelligently, we get excited, even if we think the person is wrong.
Seems daft to me. All I can think of is that some Motorola marketing wanker is doing a CYA.
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a "mouse". There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
- John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984.
Not only that, but the CNET article quoted someone named Susan Kevorkian!!!! Firewire must be deaded, like Bluebottle vs. Kenny in a Goon Show/South Park cage match!
Any Venezualan beaver cheese?
[LOOKS FOR OTHER PYTHON FANS TO QUEUE UP]
So, does anyone else notice that when a journalist gets an idea, he gets it all wrong?
*cough* NBA *cough*
- Gah, ram is SLOW
:-(
Then what do you call hard drives?Union teamsters?
I dunno. I can spend all day on my iMac and have no eye strain, but after an hour on my XP/NT machines, using a high-quality display, I need to take a break. I've tried just about every setting there is, but no such luck.
Perhaps we Mac people are jutht too thenthitive. *belch* *scratch* *grunt*
Part of what makes Titan interesting is its atmosphere and the presence of methane, potentially in solid and liquid form. Mercury is far too close to the sun to have an atmosphere; anything it had has been heated to escape velocity.
OTOH, Mercury has a pretty strong magnetic field for something that rotates so slowly. It must be almost entirely iron under the crust, and while that might not interest geeks such as we, I am sure that at some point it will become very interesting to some humans.