Please remember to think more than a day down the road... That is not very much money, to invest in the most important part of living (next to food) in the modern world. So now, just because it is cheaper, you want to burn more coal again? The future is made of renewable energy, but we have to pay now to save ourselves later. And luckily enough for those in parts of Europe, it's being built so quickly, people will actually get to experience extremely low energy prices soon, all the time. Hang in there...
people's paranoia about ominous large white vehicles is going to skyrocket again. but as Google did beyond everyone's eye by harvest wi-fi data and keeping it, again here, what will they do with these scans? "it was learned today that a city employee had started a p0rn website with the harvested body scans called ambiguousbodies.com. privacy advocates... don't exist." btw, what does the EFF even do these days?!
i know nothing! but seriously, gnome has it's problems and quirks, and anyone who wants to customize it can, so really the new UI is for new adopters, if people new to the system like it, then it did its job well. we can always modify it or not use it if we wish. what they end up with of course we hope is post gnome 2, pre Vista. i'd rather a Usable Interface than some User Interface any day. also, my user number is for sale. all of your vacation days. i want them.
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two tickets came into the helpdesk about the "internet being slow" or "the internet is down", only to find out that they just couldn't get to facebook. at work. this is why i can't stand when i have to cover the helpdesk. leave me alone with my machines. also, some network engineer entirely got fired. though i secretly hope they were DoS'd.
Just as windows mobile was catching up being coupled with Sense UI and the like, they go and join the worthless herd of App-based feature-less mobile OS'es. The thing is, as far as mobile OS'es go, windows mobile has been ahead, being an open platform and close to an actual OS. And there is a marketplace for apps on the phones anyways. 7 becomes worthless, and 6.5 will go on and on being used and modded by power users for years to come because it's the last of the useful mobile OS'es. Long live task manager.:P
because those were tablet laptops, not the new hardware design that people actually now seem to want. and the OS needs to be real, whether windows, linux, or mac os. now the GUI on the other hand, which HP has been doing a good job on with their touchscreen stand computers, with a windows back-end so it can run REAL programs. but now you get yet another worthless app-based OS that can't do jack shite. wonderful.
is it too much to ask for a tablet to run a real operating system?!?! the slate had a chance to rise up, now it's just going to be another oversized under-capable phone a la worthless iPad. fire the CTO that made this decision.
$900bn in subsidies, payable directly to the insurance companies based on the pricing structures they dictate. so no matter how much they whine, they're actually only whining about how much profit they're making, and they want more. this is win-win for them, lose-lose for us. mandating insurance for all people is their dream come true. mandated customers, via the government. DISGUSTING.
The ads themselves don't normally irk me too horribly, it's that they consume all sorts of processing power for the video and flash and all, and an extreme amount of bandwidth. Normally the ads on a page are multiple times the size of the actual page's content! This is the same effect of SPAM, wherein 99% of email bandwidth is SPAM... We're starting to see things like 75% of web bandwidth is AIDS. err ADS.
there was a story recently of police busting someone for underage drinking based on facebook pictures. the problem with arresting someone based not on catching them doing an illegal act, but by heresay or pictures... is that how can it be proven?! "that was apple juice" "i was being facetious" shouldn't those be the only needs of defense against such allegations, true or not? this is the inherant flaw i see in this policing method.
If one more person says "Oh, you're in IT." one more time, I'm gonna go postal. (do postal workers not like that?) Anyways, it's about the stigma associated with the word. People equate it with lowly service to fix their "CPU" o_0 Helpdesk it what they know. Network engineers, software developers, we need to shatter this image of low-level service said by "IT" and make people realize what it is that we do and how essential it is to them even being able to work or use what products are developed for them. Only then will "IT" get any respect beyond the computer janitor image people so ignorantly have of it now.
Remember those anti-static bracelets? And how you've never worn one while working on open computers for 15 years and have never ever had any problem from static electricity? Yeah, those, let's make all voters wear them when voting with diebold machines... That'll fix this!
The DNC list is simply a federally sanctioned list to be sold. A fee to access the list, under the pretense that these marketers will use it to know who NOT to call when in fact they are using the list as just another list of people TO call, sounds a lot like everyone else who sells spam lists. The gov't is loving the money and "subscribers" are loving getting the telemarketers anyway. Seriously, sign up for the DNC list and watch as you get MORE telemarketers calling you. Coincidence? I think not.
So according to Yale, home of the Skull & Bones secret society that churned out the Bushes and others, if we're in public, suddenly we've lost all privacy? No matter if we're out and about in public or not, what we do is OUR act, it is a private act between us and whomever, not an act that should be monitored and "authenticated" by Big Brother at every moment. Terrorists are 1 in 50 million at best, so do you want to sacrifice 100% of your freedoms and privacy for the ILLUSION of security?
Just say no to Big Brother and the Real ID act. Or else you will find yourself at a random checkpoint soon being asked to "Show Me Your Papers, errr... Thumbs!"
This is almost as sad as AOL going after spammers. Those who have sent out 50 billion unsolicited discs. The companies are infinitely more despicable than any small cabal of spammers. So when will all the unsolicited junk from the large companies be defined as spam and spyware and malware?
I'm sure you will all remember how the computer made for categorizing, keeping track of, and determining the fates of all those in Nazi control was in fact an IBM machine. There is a picture with the head of IBM sitting at a table with Hitler conferring on the computer design.
So now IBM is in cohorts with the militaristic China to determine people terrorists from a far-away camera through no human logic, just 0's and 1's again. And yes, the Manhattan project has been in the works for a long time, it is already underway with London's millions of cameras.
Big Brother is more than just a horrible TV show.
I just want to know when people will start learning from history.
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Please remember to think more than a day down the road... That is not very much money, to invest in the most important part of living (next to food) in the modern world. So now, just because it is cheaper, you want to burn more coal again? The future is made of renewable energy, but we have to pay now to save ourselves later. And luckily enough for those in parts of Europe, it's being built so quickly, people will actually get to experience extremely low energy prices soon, all the time. Hang in there...
people's paranoia about ominous large white vehicles is going to skyrocket again. but as Google did beyond everyone's eye by harvest wi-fi data and keeping it, again here, what will they do with these scans? "it was learned today that a city employee had started a p0rn website with the harvested body scans called ambiguousbodies.com. privacy advocates... don't exist." btw, what does the EFF even do these days?!
i know nothing! but seriously, gnome has it's problems and quirks, and anyone who wants to customize it can, so really the new UI is for new adopters, if people new to the system like it, then it did its job well. we can always modify it or not use it if we wish. what they end up with of course we hope is post gnome 2, pre Vista. i'd rather a Usable Interface than some User Interface any day. also, my user number is for sale. all of your vacation days. i want them.
two tickets came into the helpdesk about the "internet being slow" or "the internet is down", only to find out that they just couldn't get to facebook. at work. this is why i can't stand when i have to cover the helpdesk. leave me alone with my machines. also, some network engineer entirely got fired. though i secretly hope they were DoS'd.
Just as windows mobile was catching up being coupled with Sense UI and the like, they go and join the worthless herd of App-based feature-less mobile OS'es. The thing is, as far as mobile OS'es go, windows mobile has been ahead, being an open platform and close to an actual OS. And there is a marketplace for apps on the phones anyways. 7 becomes worthless, and 6.5 will go on and on being used and modded by power users for years to come because it's the last of the useful mobile OS'es. Long live task manager. :P
because those were tablet laptops, not the new hardware design that people actually now seem to want. and the OS needs to be real, whether windows, linux, or mac os. now the GUI on the other hand, which HP has been doing a good job on with their touchscreen stand computers, with a windows back-end so it can run REAL programs. but now you get yet another worthless app-based OS that can't do jack shite. wonderful.
is it too much to ask for a tablet to run a real operating system?!?! the slate had a chance to rise up, now it's just going to be another oversized under-capable phone a la worthless iPad. fire the CTO that made this decision.
Twittering twits tweet terrible tangents to tantalizing twats teaching totalitarian tools the totality that's timeless trash
Wait so now in addition to monetarily bailing out companies, we're going to do their work for them also?
$900bn in subsidies, payable directly to the insurance companies based on the pricing structures they dictate. so no matter how much they whine, they're actually only whining about how much profit they're making, and they want more. this is win-win for them, lose-lose for us. mandating insurance for all people is their dream come true. mandated customers, via the government. DISGUSTING.
fuckit. nevermind.
The ads themselves don't normally irk me too horribly, it's that they consume all sorts of processing power for the video and flash and all, and an extreme amount of bandwidth. Normally the ads on a page are multiple times the size of the actual page's content! This is the same effect of SPAM, wherein 99% of email bandwidth is SPAM... We're starting to see things like 75% of web bandwidth is AIDS. err ADS.
Perhaps for specific iPhone/iTunes streaming video?
there was a story recently of police busting someone for underage drinking based on facebook pictures. the problem with arresting someone based not on catching them doing an illegal act, but by heresay or pictures... is that how can it be proven?! "that was apple juice" "i was being facetious" shouldn't those be the only needs of defense against such allegations, true or not? this is the inherant flaw i see in this policing method.
If one more person says "Oh, you're in IT." one more time, I'm gonna go postal. (do postal workers not like that?) Anyways, it's about the stigma associated with the word. People equate it with lowly service to fix their "CPU" o_0 Helpdesk it what they know. Network engineers, software developers, we need to shatter this image of low-level service said by "IT" and make people realize what it is that we do and how essential it is to them even being able to work or use what products are developed for them. Only then will "IT" get any respect beyond the computer janitor image people so ignorantly have of it now.
is a badge of honor and a sound development strategy, one M$ doesn't care to follow. hence that great difference between open-source and $$ driven.
Swine, Humand and Avian??? Engineered by the U.S. Government, just like the traceable spread of Anthrax.
The Evils of Socialism!!!
p.s. their income taxes are lower than ours in most cases.
Passengers.
Remember those anti-static bracelets? And how you've never worn one while working on open computers for 15 years and have never ever had any problem from static electricity? Yeah, those, let's make all voters wear them when voting with diebold machines... That'll fix this!
Jet fuel burns at 800Â to 1500ÂF, not hot enough to melt steel (2750ÂF).
Take your equations back to biology class and understand a simple fact to start from.
The DNC list is simply a federally sanctioned list to be sold. A fee to access the list, under the pretense that these marketers will use it to know who NOT to call when in fact they are using the list as just another list of people TO call, sounds a lot like everyone else who sells spam lists. The gov't is loving the money and "subscribers" are loving getting the telemarketers anyway. Seriously, sign up for the DNC list and watch as you get MORE telemarketers calling you. Coincidence? I think not.
So according to Yale, home of the Skull & Bones secret society that churned out the Bushes and others, if we're in public, suddenly we've lost all privacy? No matter if we're out and about in public or not, what we do is OUR act, it is a private act between us and whomever, not an act that should be monitored and "authenticated" by Big Brother at every moment. Terrorists are 1 in 50 million at best, so do you want to sacrifice 100% of your freedoms and privacy for the ILLUSION of security?
Just say no to Big Brother and the Real ID act. Or else you will find yourself at a random checkpoint soon being asked to "Show Me Your Papers, errr... Thumbs!"
This is almost as sad as AOL going after spammers. Those who have sent out 50 billion unsolicited discs. The companies are infinitely more despicable than any small cabal of spammers. So when will all the unsolicited junk from the large companies be defined as spam and spyware and malware?
I'm sure you will all remember how the computer made for categorizing, keeping track of, and determining the fates of all those in Nazi control was in fact an IBM machine. There is a picture with the head of IBM sitting at a table with Hitler conferring on the computer design.
So now IBM is in cohorts with the militaristic China to determine people terrorists from a far-away camera through no human logic, just 0's and 1's again. And yes, the Manhattan project has been in the works for a long time, it is already underway with London's millions of cameras.
Big Brother is more than just a horrible TV show.
I just want to know when people will start learning from history.