I average a hard drive failure per year, for the last five years.
And, I'm still wearing the same watch I bought in 1986... and it was a cheap assed Cassio that cost me $25. But, the watch has a built in pedometer with three settings for stride length and with my walking style (consistent) is very close to one percent accurate.
I may actually replace the watch, now that I have a Garmin Forerunner...
And Windows XP SP2 doing just as well as OS X means...?
It means that something as simple as a firewall, implemented from the very beginning... say 1995 with Windows 95... would have saved the world economy damn near a trillion dollars.
For ten fscking years we have had to put up with negligent behavior on the part of MS when it comes to basic computer science.
Where I grew up the "Great White North" meant anything north of the Mason-Dixon line. (As much as they hated slavery, they hated blacks moving north even more. At least that is what they taught in the red neck school I attended.)
I thought you were claiming to be a yankee... AKA North Jesusland.
Your claim sounded just like something someone from Jesusland would make.
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I average a hard drive failure per year, for the last five years.
And, I'm still wearing the same watch I bought in 1986... and it was a cheap assed Cassio that cost me $25. But, the watch has a built in pedometer with three settings for stride length and with my walking style (consistent) is very close to one percent accurate.
I may actually replace the watch, now that I have a Garmin Forerunner...
To bad we don't outst people for fraud...
There is no evidence of substantial fraud in America's voting...
In other news, no trees fell in the woods today.
So, as long as it was a "white collar" crime and there is no physical evidence of violence... everything is OK?
Wow.
In his article he says: No one goes shopping for a music player and decides against an iPod because they want a "flash-memory player".
This is simply wrong.
I don't want moving parts in my next "portable music device". (Ok... the buttons can move, but that is it)
Hopefully Apple knows a bit more about the potential market than he does.
The other thing that would be really, really nice would be for memory expansion via CF card.
If you'll spend $150 on a flash player, why wouldn't you spend the extra $100 on an iPod?
Having a problem with the concept of no moving parts?
I would buy the flash based device, but not the iPod.
Read the bold part again if you don't understand why.
When you consider the cost per year of service... the flash based product wins hands down. (Assuming it meets your needs in all other areas.)
it doesn't even have a 1 or 2 line led display.
On the side you can see.
There is plenty of room on the other side for the display.
Of course, the image is fake... and this is conjecture.
The logic does not hold up. I can't be condemed by something that does not exist.
Arguing that what exists can be defined by me doesn't make the thing exist.
It still, simply... is not there. No matter who wants it to be there.
Now, to play the game: my moral construct is this... I do what I do.
Now, which part of that did I violate?
Not to get into philosophy but EVERYBODY sins.
OK, I'll bite.
Sin is a construct created by man... just like god.
Not sinning is easy, change the construct.
I simply set CSI to have a higher priority and stopped watching the show with the f*cked up timing.
No reason to reward that behavior anyway.
During the off season I pick up the missed show... if I'm really hurting for something to watch.
Most of the time, I'm not.
"Skilled in the art"
Perhaps they need to look outside their own campus?
It really isn't that hard to walk a list looking for a value that closely matches another value.
What you should have accounted for are those of us in IT who don't run Windows.
and you said:
there's always one asshole
To which I reply:(In layman's terms... might as well go ahead and add another asshole to the count. The parent is more right than you are willing to admit.)
And Windows XP SP2 doing just as well as OS X means...?
It means that something as simple as a firewall, implemented from the very beginning... say 1995 with Windows 95... would have saved the world economy damn near a trillion dollars.
For ten fscking years we have had to put up with negligent behavior on the part of MS when it comes to basic computer science.
All in the name of one more sale.
Ouch...
OK, someone mod me down for being such a dipshit.
I would say that is the perfect example of what happens when you take a bad implementation of a bad metaphor... and copy... I mean... innovate it.
;-)
So... after you pressed the power button... this big assed dialog box pops up and asks if you want to turn off the computer, or put it to sleep...
Boy, you'd have been really annoyed if it had simply turned off (like a Windows box).
Kind of amazing that you would click "Shut down" if you didn't want to actually turn it off...
Nobody with any sense will ever drag a mounted network drive to the trash can, because that would erase their network drive.
;-)
Why would it erase the drive?
If I put anything else in there, it is still there... fully intact, until I tell it to empty the trash.
Knowing this, it seems quite safe to put a drive in the trash.
The real surprise is that the damn thing isn't in the trash when I go looking for it.
After all, I didn't empty the trash yet... and every thing else is still there.
So... where in the hell is my drive!!!
(OK, I know... but... try explaining it to someone else.)
...nipple-impaired babies...
It takes two to tango.
Heh, exactly. #1 complaint I've always heard about Macs? "Oh, you have to drag the disk to the Trash to eject it, that's not intuitive."
Answer?
It is a metaphor.
There is something on your desk that you no longer want (there). How do you get rid of it?
Answer: Throw it away.
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The real problem, IMHO, was having the drives show up on the desktop to begin with. That totally messed up the metaphor.
Who keeps a filing cabinet on there desk? That is what a disk really is (in this mataphor)... a place to store documents.
There should have been a part of the "floor" visible on the side of the desk with the trash can... and a filing cabinet.
Maybe even space all around the "desktop" so you have a "place" for the printer, an "incoming" bin... things like that.
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Then again, we have to remember... they didn't even have color back then.
I've never lost a file this way.
I get a dialog box telling me that the path is no longer valid and asking for a new destination.
And, for the life of me... I don't know if that is the OS or the applications... but I'd bet it is the OS because quite a few apps do it. (On OSX)
How many terrorist incidents have there been in the US since 9/11?
Um... about the same number as before 9/11?
Or, do you want to count the killing of Randy Weaver's wife as terrorism too?
How about the killing of all those people in Waco?
Just *how* do you want to *define* terrorism? Because, seriously, I was a hell of a lot better off before my government tried to "help".
Sorry, I don't watch much TV.
Where I grew up the "Great White North" meant anything north of the Mason-Dixon line. (As much as they hated slavery, they hated blacks moving north even more. At least that is what they taught in the red neck school I attended.)
I thought you were claiming to be a yankee... AKA North Jesusland.
Your claim sounded just like something someone from Jesusland would make.
I dare say that when you have a severe case of the stupids is the best time to test.
You are much more likely to do the same stupid shit your users will do.
Make notes. Make automated tests. Fix it when you are fresh.
My country doesn't start wars and I'm damn proud of it.
Me thinks someone doesn't understand the meaning of pre-emptive.
That, or you are not from the U.S.
We most definitely started the war with Iraq.
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