For one, change happens. With change comes snakeoil salesmen and people trying to hawk shit, under-equipped products for huge sums of money (Fortigate and Sonicwall come to mind, though Sonicwall is massively better than they used to be). Hell, even Cisco gets in this game, changing things up every once in a while just to stay 'relevant' with new certifications.
Paradigms? No, nothing has changed. It's the same it's always been, just encapsulated (virtualization, cloud this and that, etc.). You just have marketing bullshit, like you always have, and managers and supervisors who gobble it up. Same for buzzwords.
New platforms? It's your fault, or your manager's fault, for adopting something you can't effectively support. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with new platforms, but if it fits a 'paradigm' and that's why it was adopted, then it most certainly is your fault.
New architectures? If that's a problem for you, find a different career. This doesn't complicate things, it makes things easier (barring too many paradigms, of course).
In essence, what you're saying is we need to get the business and sales types out of IT. In my experience, the best run networks are "buzzword free" - people have tools delivered to them that they need, and people don't just get every whim honored. The person in charge of IT decisions is respected, because things really do just work. No, they may not be flashy and new, but they work. "The network is offline" doesn't happen, because things are planned and tested prior to production. (Yes, there are always gotchas, but in those cases people tend to be fairly understanding unless they're being unrealistic.)
IT systems people are like high tech janitors, electricians, and general contractors all in one. GCs, electricians, and even janitors have standards by which they work: "no, I can't do that, it's against code" or "that will cause safety problems". People listen to them because they're typically right about their domain - as are IT types, if they're not business/sales type managers. But more likely than not, if they're not in the business/sales mentality, then they haven't got any balls (myself often included, unfortunately - herd mentality and negative social influence are bad).
The MSA is of the "Metro area", which is inclusive up to Spearfish (Hill City, Lead, Deadwood...), 40 minutes from here, and east to Wall. RC itself is still under 70k afaik.
You seem to be confused. There has been no conclusive, and only mildly correlative, evidence associating CO2 levels with negative environmental effects.
How much energy does that nano-material take to produce?
Like most things, many new inventions are simply offsetting costs to someone else who can handle the specialized burden of a specific cost. I can pay $10 a year for site and domain hosting because someone else has that economy of scale down pat. I can pay $100 a month for colo rack space because the colo exists. I can pay $5 for a t-shirt because some slave in China made it. And so on...
That's always the thing here: where is the nano-material going to be made, and how much energy is it actually going to use to produce? I'm guessing more than the energy saved, but it's Chinese energy being consumed, not Californian - so it's cheaper.
Society would not exist if it were not for coal, oil, and gas being widely and commonly used. Not resembling anything you're familiar with.
Instead, we would all be crowded into a narrow band around the equator. Some would live in the northern and southern reaches and would cut and burn all of the wood in forests to maintain such a lifestyle. Your quality of life would be, at best, similar to a Norseman or Dutchman during 900AD.
Smelting iron would never have become commonplace or economical. Plastic would not exist, and neither would most of the things within your immediate reach which you take for granted. Almost everything you own would be made from rough hewn pine. Your house, if you live in a colder climate, would have no glass insulation. You would ride a horse to work if you were fortunate to not have to slave away on land for yourself, or walked the distance due to being like most folks and being unable to afford such a creature as a horse.
That's why "durr bad for society" is idiotic on its face. Society wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those things you denigrated - you know, pretty much every significant/major source of power for the past 500+ years.
People learn as much as they need to learn to get by/be comfortable.
Specifically related to charcoal, my ex, her father, her siblings siblings, our children, and my siblings haven't got a clue how to make charcoal. My father and I do (and I have done so on several occasions while learning how to forge things). Yet everyone I listed is fully capable of learning how to make charcoal in a fairly short period of time, if the need were to present itself.
You wouldn't need that many people to 'relaunch' society. Any town with a college campus that teaches decent science is going to have the intellectual capital (either in minds or in books) to get things off the ground. In any town, there are a handful of people who already do these 'cottage industry hobbies', too: I know two local knifemakers, a tanner, and 3 bootmakers (two of which are good enough to make a modest living at it). And this isn't a 'big' town, the local population is under 70k with not much of any other population centers nearby (Denver is 8 hours away).
I've also electroplated and done crude welding with a car battery. I know others who have as well.
I'm pretty sure a 'general contractor' who loves spending time outdoors would be pretty quick to be able to fashion
Car hoods and body panels would quickly be hammered out into crude furnaces or stoves, as needed.
All available PV cells would be put to use charging all available automotive batteries once petrofuels were unavailable, and inventive people would turn their children into gerbils to charge the batteries, possibly through means of a game.
People would end up turning Home Depot into a massive greenhouse (or similar stores, at least).
All of this is easily possible in a connected community. Yeah, they'll have to be fighting back the barbarians, but it's not such an unsurvivable/bleak situation as you paint.
Yep. And this is a godsend, in some ways: "multipath NFS" should soon be inexplicably easier to accomplish on a high scale. I will be able to put in a single redundant/HA host with 8 1GBps NICs and not have to worry about setting up multipath on each of the individual VM heads I run. This has the significant advantage of not being stuck with immobile "SAN storage" LUNs or, for that matter, "enterprise" hardware vendors which can't bring the reliability their hardware close to anything near what generic Intel or even bcm network cards can provide.
All the better if I've got unified storage at the backend with abstracted paths (eg. lustre, unionfs).
And from the looks of it, it's designed 'forward' - it's going to be MUCH easier to do HA TCP connectivity with this than it is with misc. service level TCP (eg. heartbeat), particularly when you're dealing with (mostly) centrally assigned IPv6 addresses. Awesome.
Granted, from the looks of it, we may have to wait for switch support first, too... I didn't read that carefully.
Is there anything wrong with using a can of electrical parts cleaner and then hitting it with eg. compressed air? http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/CRC-Lectra-Motive-electric-parts-cleaner/_/N-262e?itemIdentifier=119711_0_0_
Hasn't been problematic for me, before. No irritating cleanup, just pour it on the ground after you spray.;)
The elephant in the room is what isn't being mentioned.
Why has nobody of an officious status mentioned that this could be a false flag attack to muster international sentiments in favor of Syria, in opposition to the rebels? I'm sure Syrian government officials would like nothing more at this point than to have the US and UN coalition allies storm in and settle things for them. What surer way to do so than have their opponents use an 'illegal weapon', hopefully killing innocents?
I suspect nobody's mentioned it because drawing light to a possible false flag would put question into peoples' minds about the possibility of false flags being used elsewhere as well.
I just fully retired my X30 two years ago. That's 7 years of service. In that time, I did have a hard drive fail, as well as a power inverter (possibly related failures). The letters on the keyboard were not only worn off, but there were (are) dimples worn into the plastic on the keys where my (shortly 'manicured to about 1-2mm) fingernails struck (mainly on the D, K, L, and S keys). It was extremely reliable and was my primary device for at least 5 of those years.
Meanwhile, I've since bricked two Lenovo Thinkpads, and would rather have an Asus or HP laptop over most Thinkpads. It's sad when a "Compaq" seems to be more reliable and physically resilient than a Thinkpad, as is the case for my current laptop.
You must not live in the country. Typical farm and/or ranch days start at 5am and end at 8 or 9 evening. In most of the US, this means daylight savings really doesn't help anyone: the day is dark when they get up, and the sun is setting or already set when their day is done. Many of these people don't even operate by the clock, anyway: they're up an hour before dawn, and work late into the evening regardless (or work by the sun during the summer). It only really makes sense if we're talking about pre-industrial environments.
Even for commuters or people who get up around, say, 7am, there's no benefit to the "extra hour" of daylight in the morning: it's often still dark when you get to work. This is true for probably close to the entire northern half of the US.
Daylight Savings was an invention by the railroads and sold to government officials for political financial support for the purpose of simplifying train schedules around many disparate "local times" which were synchronized to the actual rising and setting of the sun. It's a ruse and serves little to no purpose beyond having distinct timezones.
Actually, that is fairly lamentable. You can't do that at all anymore without serious repercussions. Meanwhile, cowards who would never even look someone in the eye get away with screwing them over every day through various back room dealings and lies.
Yes, traditional phones break into many more pieces of shrapnel... hopefully you don't get hit by the whip-around effect when the phone cord reaches its maximum length...
This is exactly the problem I've been having lately while on AT&T towers. Weak signal, random jumps in signal quality (loss of signal to full bars and vice versa), and calls not coming in even when I supposedly had full signal. I really want to get my phone to hop over to the nearby iWireless (an affiliate of my carrier, t-mobile) and I know have good signal (I was on them previously but can't find them now), but I'm not quite sure how...
No kidding! A person could talk for hours and hours with "unlimited long distance" and hear every waver in a person's breath with a crappy $5 telephone.
Currently, I'll get randomly dropped on my cell at least once a conversation while at home. This only started occurring a week ago, when I got back from a long trip: I'm right at the periphery of two different carrier towers, and while I had been able to pick up the good signal of an off-brand carrier, I'm only getting a (much weaker) AT&T signal. Fail. This says nothing about the line noise, "talking in a tunnel", echo, and disconnects after 2 hours, OTD.
Of course, I could always just get a consumer landline again. But that's just an analog bridge from a VoIP setup maintained by the "phone company". I could also set up my own VoIP setup, but I've btdt and the QoS they set up these days makes it certain I'll have all the lovely jitters, lags, and drops I can expect from my cell.
Things like WebEx are additionally infuriating. I've had clear-as-day conference calls before - with real telephones. Even with VoIP. But try getting a dozen people, half of which are calling in with bad cell signals and most of the remainder on VoIP connections of variable bitrate, etc. and then having WebEx reencode the result for everyone. This is insufferable when it's a 'mandatory teleconference', because then you're on the phone for an hour+ or more with an inability to provide input due to not being able to understand a single fucking word anyone's saying.
You know, people could just grow a pair and yell, "You know what? FUCKKKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" into the phone before 'hanging up'. I'm pretty sure the message would be conveyed.
Also: I'm a fan of the "fuck this shitbrain, I'm putting it on mute and setting it on my desk while I do something important," dis. Then they have to hang up: I care just enough to show them that I don't value their time, and will denigrate them by making them hang up on me.
I pride myself in having vehicles which run well, are well maintained, and don't have all the common irritating 'broken' things, which commonly happen as vehicles get used - handles break, doors don't seal right, nobs come off, etc.
I also have a beater Chevy truck that just keeps going and going. I pour liquids into it: some of them burn when they should, some of them burn when they shouldn't, and ultimately, most of them make it either into the air or onto the ground. I'm proud of this vehicle, too, because it's a sturdy, solid, and reliable beast.
Considering the media operates with not only with an expectation for godlessness but an appreciation thereof, I suspect such an admittance might actually be conceptually difficult for them. We'd never see it even in fact a universal supreme being (God) were discovered to exist.
Yes, in the professional world, Apple's OS X machines are silently becoming what the Total Station is for eg. surveyors - but disdained instead of appreciated. From what I've seen, they're either purchased for the purpose you use them for, or for the fact that they know they'll come with a nice display (eg. for something like small shop photo or video editing). I don't know about the actual numbers, but from my observations, OS X is quickly becoming a has-been support platform for iOS development and use.
I would personally not be surprised if in 5 years, OS X was just that - a development platform you had to purchase simply for development, maybe even reduced to an SDK you could run on another platform. Hopefully that doesn't happen - as much as I dislike OS X, I think there's something to be said for having 3 major players in the market, especially with the way Windows is going.
Yeah, yeah, KDE has a "similar" look and feel to Windows 7 - to a degree.
Something you're missing, however, is that the "USB dialog", as well as all dbus type dialogs, actually work consistently in KDE. Windows 7 is still prone to some of the same irritating 'balloon dialog' behavior which was present in Windows 95. I personally really liked KDE 3.5 (kio slaves FTW!), and still consider it or 4.x to be the most powerful desktop environment available. Yes, they copied a fair number of Windows elements, but in every case I can think of, they actually work better.
GNOME, in my not so humble opinion, has always been something to avoid. I've never liked it (quite possibly because I never had a large enough display to justify wasting so much space on windowing effects as GNOME UI elements demand, but also because it was cumbersome - and 3.0 just sucked).
If all you're looking for is a window manager (and not a full desktop environment), I'm particularly preferential towards the Awesome Window Manager. It's a mixed-mode tiling manager (so it can leave windows 'unmanaged' to float about your display like apparitions) and it is keyboard centric. It works very well if you spend most of your day with side by side windows, and a lot of terminals. It scales to multiple displays beautifully and seamlessly. It is fairly minimalist in the graphics department, but the coolness of its functionality - the keybindings are fairly similar to what you might use for, say, manipulating tabs in Chrome or Firefox - more than makes up for it. It might be a bit irritating if you shut your machine down fully and want things restored to a specific state on each boot (window positions, etc.) but there's a way to do that in Awesome, too (through extensible Lua, which I do not know or feel I need to know to appreciate Awesome).
OK, an interesting statistic. I have to laugh at it, and you for quoting it, though: citation needed, after all.
Reason still bellies these supposed 'findings': if the eye grows rapidly to 22.5-23mm, and grows no further past age 13, why is it that while the eyes are their largest in proportion to the human's skull the human undergoes the most extensive emotional and intellectual development of their lives?
Yeah, no kidding. My first response was, "what the fuck?" This is (seemingly typical) bad science.
I'm sorry, there's more than 10mm variability in eye size in existing populations. That variability is kind of how you get stereotypes and things like manga in the first place. Not only that, but extrapolating "they didn't have mental capacity because they had larger eyes" doesn't even begin to follow, logically. Maybe their visual cortex was the same size? Maybe it was actually smaller and significantly more efficient, allowing them to actually process more of what they saw (unlike us, who ignore most of it)? Maybe, just maybe, they used more of their brains - which were actually bigger, despite the "they were stupid by modern standards" stereotypes.
Pretty tiring. It's pretty irritating to see the "science" out of these types.
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I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen.
For one, change happens. With change comes snakeoil salesmen and people trying to hawk shit, under-equipped products for huge sums of money (Fortigate and Sonicwall come to mind, though Sonicwall is massively better than they used to be). Hell, even Cisco gets in this game, changing things up every once in a while just to stay 'relevant' with new certifications.
Paradigms? No, nothing has changed. It's the same it's always been, just encapsulated (virtualization, cloud this and that, etc.). You just have marketing bullshit, like you always have, and managers and supervisors who gobble it up. Same for buzzwords.
New platforms? It's your fault, or your manager's fault, for adopting something you can't effectively support. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with new platforms, but if it fits a 'paradigm' and that's why it was adopted, then it most certainly is your fault.
New architectures? If that's a problem for you, find a different career. This doesn't complicate things, it makes things easier (barring too many paradigms, of course).
In essence, what you're saying is we need to get the business and sales types out of IT. In my experience, the best run networks are "buzzword free" - people have tools delivered to them that they need, and people don't just get every whim honored. The person in charge of IT decisions is respected, because things really do just work. No, they may not be flashy and new, but they work. "The network is offline" doesn't happen, because things are planned and tested prior to production. (Yes, there are always gotchas, but in those cases people tend to be fairly understanding unless they're being unrealistic.)
IT systems people are like high tech janitors, electricians, and general contractors all in one. GCs, electricians, and even janitors have standards by which they work: "no, I can't do that, it's against code" or "that will cause safety problems". People listen to them because they're typically right about their domain - as are IT types, if they're not business/sales type managers. But more likely than not, if they're not in the business/sales mentality, then they haven't got any balls (myself often included, unfortunately - herd mentality and negative social influence are bad).
No, we don't.
We keep a bottle in the drawer, sometimes another two in the server room...
Hah, are you from here?
The MSA is of the "Metro area", which is inclusive up to Spearfish (Hill City, Lead, Deadwood...), 40 minutes from here, and east to Wall. RC itself is still under 70k afaik.
You seem to be confused. There has been no conclusive, and only mildly correlative, evidence associating CO2 levels with negative environmental effects.
How much energy does that nano-material take to produce?
Like most things, many new inventions are simply offsetting costs to someone else who can handle the specialized burden of a specific cost. I can pay $10 a year for site and domain hosting because someone else has that economy of scale down pat. I can pay $100 a month for colo rack space because the colo exists. I can pay $5 for a t-shirt because some slave in China made it. And so on...
That's always the thing here: where is the nano-material going to be made, and how much energy is it actually going to use to produce? I'm guessing more than the energy saved, but it's Chinese energy being consumed, not Californian - so it's cheaper.
Wait, "allowing" unlimited CO2 emissions is a subsidy? And this is something which actually makes sense in your mind?
Please, tell me where the inherent cost to limitless CO2 emissions are for a producer that are being subsidized (in any real or imaginary currency).
What world do you live in? That's absurd.
OK, here's an explanation for you:
Society would not exist if it were not for coal, oil, and gas being widely and commonly used. Not resembling anything you're familiar with.
Instead, we would all be crowded into a narrow band around the equator. Some would live in the northern and southern reaches and would cut and burn all of the wood in forests to maintain such a lifestyle. Your quality of life would be, at best, similar to a Norseman or Dutchman during 900AD.
Smelting iron would never have become commonplace or economical. Plastic would not exist, and neither would most of the things within your immediate reach which you take for granted. Almost everything you own would be made from rough hewn pine. Your house, if you live in a colder climate, would have no glass insulation. You would ride a horse to work if you were fortunate to not have to slave away on land for yourself, or walked the distance due to being like most folks and being unable to afford such a creature as a horse.
That's why "durr bad for society" is idiotic on its face. Society wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those things you denigrated - you know, pretty much every significant/major source of power for the past 500+ years.
And?
People learn as much as they need to learn to get by/be comfortable.
Specifically related to charcoal, my ex, her father, her siblings siblings, our children, and my siblings haven't got a clue how to make charcoal. My father and I do (and I have done so on several occasions while learning how to forge things). Yet everyone I listed is fully capable of learning how to make charcoal in a fairly short period of time, if the need were to present itself.
You wouldn't need that many people to 'relaunch' society. Any town with a college campus that teaches decent science is going to have the intellectual capital (either in minds or in books) to get things off the ground. In any town, there are a handful of people who already do these 'cottage industry hobbies', too: I know two local knifemakers, a tanner, and 3 bootmakers (two of which are good enough to make a modest living at it). And this isn't a 'big' town, the local population is under 70k with not much of any other population centers nearby (Denver is 8 hours away).
I've also electroplated and done crude welding with a car battery. I know others who have as well.
I'm pretty sure a 'general contractor' who loves spending time outdoors would be pretty quick to be able to fashion
Car hoods and body panels would quickly be hammered out into crude furnaces or stoves, as needed.
All available PV cells would be put to use charging all available automotive batteries once petrofuels were unavailable, and inventive people would turn their children into gerbils to charge the batteries, possibly through means of a game.
People would end up turning Home Depot into a massive greenhouse (or similar stores, at least).
All of this is easily possible in a connected community. Yeah, they'll have to be fighting back the barbarians, but it's not such an unsurvivable/bleak situation as you paint.
Yep. And this is a godsend, in some ways: "multipath NFS" should soon be inexplicably easier to accomplish on a high scale. I will be able to put in a single redundant/HA host with 8 1GBps NICs and not have to worry about setting up multipath on each of the individual VM heads I run. This has the significant advantage of not being stuck with immobile "SAN storage" LUNs or, for that matter, "enterprise" hardware vendors which can't bring the reliability their hardware close to anything near what generic Intel or even bcm network cards can provide.
All the better if I've got unified storage at the backend with abstracted paths (eg. lustre, unionfs).
And from the looks of it, it's designed 'forward' - it's going to be MUCH easier to do HA TCP connectivity with this than it is with misc. service level TCP (eg. heartbeat), particularly when you're dealing with (mostly) centrally assigned IPv6 addresses. Awesome.
Granted, from the looks of it, we may have to wait for switch support first, too... I didn't read that carefully.
Is there anything wrong with using a can of electrical parts cleaner and then hitting it with eg. compressed air?
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/CRC-Lectra-Motive-electric-parts-cleaner/_/N-262e?itemIdentifier=119711_0_0_
Hasn't been problematic for me, before. No irritating cleanup, just pour it on the ground after you spray. ;)
The elephant in the room is what isn't being mentioned.
Why has nobody of an officious status mentioned that this could be a false flag attack to muster international sentiments in favor of Syria, in opposition to the rebels? I'm sure Syrian government officials would like nothing more at this point than to have the US and UN coalition allies storm in and settle things for them. What surer way to do so than have their opponents use an 'illegal weapon', hopefully killing innocents?
I suspect nobody's mentioned it because drawing light to a possible false flag would put question into peoples' minds about the possibility of false flags being used elsewhere as well.
Except in the case of the OP, this is about an X series laptop. That's not a consumer line, it's the ultraportable business line.
I just fully retired my X30 two years ago. That's 7 years of service. In that time, I did have a hard drive fail, as well as a power inverter (possibly related failures). The letters on the keyboard were not only worn off, but there were (are) dimples worn into the plastic on the keys where my (shortly 'manicured to about 1-2mm) fingernails struck (mainly on the D, K, L, and S keys). It was extremely reliable and was my primary device for at least 5 of those years.
Meanwhile, I've since bricked two Lenovo Thinkpads, and would rather have an Asus or HP laptop over most Thinkpads. It's sad when a "Compaq" seems to be more reliable and physically resilient than a Thinkpad, as is the case for my current laptop.
You must not live in the country. Typical farm and/or ranch days start at 5am and end at 8 or 9 evening. In most of the US, this means daylight savings really doesn't help anyone: the day is dark when they get up, and the sun is setting or already set when their day is done. Many of these people don't even operate by the clock, anyway: they're up an hour before dawn, and work late into the evening regardless (or work by the sun during the summer). It only really makes sense if we're talking about pre-industrial environments.
Even for commuters or people who get up around, say, 7am, there's no benefit to the "extra hour" of daylight in the morning: it's often still dark when you get to work. This is true for probably close to the entire northern half of the US.
Daylight Savings was an invention by the railroads and sold to government officials for political financial support for the purpose of simplifying train schedules around many disparate "local times" which were synchronized to the actual rising and setting of the sun. It's a ruse and serves little to no purpose beyond having distinct timezones.
Actually, that is fairly lamentable. You can't do that at all anymore without serious repercussions. Meanwhile, cowards who would never even look someone in the eye get away with screwing them over every day through various back room dealings and lies.
Yes, traditional phones break into many more pieces of shrapnel... hopefully you don't get hit by the whip-around effect when the phone cord reaches its maximum length...
This is exactly the problem I've been having lately while on AT&T towers. Weak signal, random jumps in signal quality (loss of signal to full bars and vice versa), and calls not coming in even when I supposedly had full signal. I really want to get my phone to hop over to the nearby iWireless (an affiliate of my carrier, t-mobile) and I know have good signal (I was on them previously but can't find them now), but I'm not quite sure how...
No kidding! A person could talk for hours and hours with "unlimited long distance" and hear every waver in a person's breath with a crappy $5 telephone.
Currently, I'll get randomly dropped on my cell at least once a conversation while at home. This only started occurring a week ago, when I got back from a long trip: I'm right at the periphery of two different carrier towers, and while I had been able to pick up the good signal of an off-brand carrier, I'm only getting a (much weaker) AT&T signal. Fail. This says nothing about the line noise, "talking in a tunnel", echo, and disconnects after 2 hours, OTD.
Of course, I could always just get a consumer landline again. But that's just an analog bridge from a VoIP setup maintained by the "phone company". I could also set up my own VoIP setup, but I've btdt and the QoS they set up these days makes it certain I'll have all the lovely jitters, lags, and drops I can expect from my cell.
Things like WebEx are additionally infuriating. I've had clear-as-day conference calls before - with real telephones. Even with VoIP. But try getting a dozen people, half of which are calling in with bad cell signals and most of the remainder on VoIP connections of variable bitrate, etc. and then having WebEx reencode the result for everyone. This is insufferable when it's a 'mandatory teleconference', because then you're on the phone for an hour+ or more with an inability to provide input due to not being able to understand a single fucking word anyone's saying.
You know, people could just grow a pair and yell, "You know what? FUCKKKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" into the phone before 'hanging up'. I'm pretty sure the message would be conveyed.
Also: I'm a fan of the "fuck this shitbrain, I'm putting it on mute and setting it on my desk while I do something important," dis. Then they have to hang up: I care just enough to show them that I don't value their time, and will denigrate them by making them hang up on me.
I pride myself in having vehicles which run well, are well maintained, and don't have all the common irritating 'broken' things, which commonly happen as vehicles get used - handles break, doors don't seal right, nobs come off, etc.
I also have a beater Chevy truck that just keeps going and going. I pour liquids into it: some of them burn when they should, some of them burn when they shouldn't, and ultimately, most of them make it either into the air or onto the ground. I'm proud of this vehicle, too, because it's a sturdy, solid, and reliable beast.
Considering the media operates with not only with an expectation for godlessness but an appreciation thereof, I suspect such an admittance might actually be conceptually difficult for them. We'd never see it even in fact a universal supreme being (God) were discovered to exist.
Yes, in the professional world, Apple's OS X machines are silently becoming what the Total Station is for eg. surveyors - but disdained instead of appreciated. From what I've seen, they're either purchased for the purpose you use them for, or for the fact that they know they'll come with a nice display (eg. for something like small shop photo or video editing). I don't know about the actual numbers, but from my observations, OS X is quickly becoming a has-been support platform for iOS development and use.
I would personally not be surprised if in 5 years, OS X was just that - a development platform you had to purchase simply for development, maybe even reduced to an SDK you could run on another platform. Hopefully that doesn't happen - as much as I dislike OS X, I think there's something to be said for having 3 major players in the market, especially with the way Windows is going.
Yeah, yeah, KDE has a "similar" look and feel to Windows 7 - to a degree.
Something you're missing, however, is that the "USB dialog", as well as all dbus type dialogs, actually work consistently in KDE. Windows 7 is still prone to some of the same irritating 'balloon dialog' behavior which was present in Windows 95. I personally really liked KDE 3.5 (kio slaves FTW!), and still consider it or 4.x to be the most powerful desktop environment available. Yes, they copied a fair number of Windows elements, but in every case I can think of, they actually work better.
GNOME, in my not so humble opinion, has always been something to avoid. I've never liked it (quite possibly because I never had a large enough display to justify wasting so much space on windowing effects as GNOME UI elements demand, but also because it was cumbersome - and 3.0 just sucked).
If all you're looking for is a window manager (and not a full desktop environment), I'm particularly preferential towards the Awesome Window Manager. It's a mixed-mode tiling manager (so it can leave windows 'unmanaged' to float about your display like apparitions) and it is keyboard centric. It works very well if you spend most of your day with side by side windows, and a lot of terminals. It scales to multiple displays beautifully and seamlessly. It is fairly minimalist in the graphics department, but the coolness of its functionality - the keybindings are fairly similar to what you might use for, say, manipulating tabs in Chrome or Firefox - more than makes up for it. It might be a bit irritating if you shut your machine down fully and want things restored to a specific state on each boot (window positions, etc.) but there's a way to do that in Awesome, too (through extensible Lua, which I do not know or feel I need to know to appreciate Awesome).
OK, an interesting statistic. I have to laugh at it, and you for quoting it, though: citation needed, after all.
Reason still bellies these supposed 'findings': if the eye grows rapidly to 22.5-23mm, and grows no further past age 13, why is it that while the eyes are their largest in proportion to the human's skull the human undergoes the most extensive emotional and intellectual development of their lives?
Yeah, no kidding. My first response was, "what the fuck?" This is (seemingly typical) bad science.
I'm sorry, there's more than 10mm variability in eye size in existing populations. That variability is kind of how you get stereotypes and things like manga in the first place. Not only that, but extrapolating "they didn't have mental capacity because they had larger eyes" doesn't even begin to follow, logically. Maybe their visual cortex was the same size? Maybe it was actually smaller and significantly more efficient, allowing them to actually process more of what they saw (unlike us, who ignore most of it)? Maybe, just maybe, they used more of their brains - which were actually bigger, despite the "they were stupid by modern standards" stereotypes.
Pretty tiring. It's pretty irritating to see the "science" out of these types.