The one running Windows, slated for release RSN, last I heard. Maybe that fell through the floor. Personally, I'd love to get an Asus x86 Atom netbook/tablet (and run Android/Debian/wahtever on it).
Tea Party supports Freedom from government and lawyers how? They are a another tool to get the useful idiots to vote in policies that hurt themselves. Ask those folks about their stance on gay marriage and watch how fast they support government intrusion into people private lives.
That phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "less government" is somewhat at odds with useful idiots - the end game scenario of which is bigger government, regardless of its color.
I went from Debian 4 to Ubuntu 8.04 (if memory serves). I used it until 10.04, which I dropped about 4 years ago. I'm now using Debian Stable again, and can't rightly say why I ever left. Ubuntu's become a huge pain in the ass.
You're falling prey to the same faulty reasoning the mainstream media does all the time.
No, it is not "just 1 degree C". It's also:
cyclical El Nino patterns resulting in:
* a warm winter
* negligible snow fall
* low rainfall over land in CONUS
When we have flooding in a couple years from El Nina, the climatologists will blame that on global warming, too (just as they have since the 1990s, when sun activity had nothing to do with it, either, of course).
When you multiply the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of the oceans and air by 1 degree, it's a number that's off the charts. How did people think we could dump that much energy into any system and it would not make a difference?
Cute. I suppose we could explode a bunch of atom bombs and blow up all our nuke reactors, but aside from that, I'm not sure. That may not even do it. Do you have any ideas?
Well, we're talking about global warming here, remember.
Compared to the reasoning and methodologies found in most of these 'studies', you could probably prove an increase in alien abductions with higher likely certainty.
I'm glad you like your job and think you're doing a good job at it. It's commendable, and it does seem like it's a good mass retail establishment to work at.
But here's the problem.
I think Geek Squad--much like Best Buy as a whole--gets a much worse rep than is deserved. I've said it before, and I'll say it again--they're far from perfect. But from what I've personally experienced, the majority of people who come to us leave satisfied.
Just because they're satisfied does not mean they got good, or even non-destructive, advise. You're a retail sales worker, and while you're likely going to be a cut above the people behind the electronic's cabinet at Walmart, it's not a foregone conclusion for even a fraction of the people in your position.
So when Fry's prices are usually less than half what Best Buy's are for common low-end items, and cheaper for identical or superior high-end items, why go to Best Buy? Fry's has significantly more selection as well, and their employees are typically more professional and always better dressed.
And yet, when the common person is usually told at BB that it'll cost $300+ to fix their $500 computer, then they have the service done and it results in all their files being deleted, it's somehow surprising that people dislike Best Buy, and has a bad reputation with everyone from your grandma to your geeky brother-in-law who works as a programmer?
There is nothing that Best Buy does which is even comparable in value to what I've seen elsewhere in the market. Even a local shop known for over-charging on hardware is going to provide more value for simple OEM parts, in my experience.
Being as I'm coming from experience on this, your statements are a bit absurd.
- People are not embarrassed to be on welfare
Um, many people are. Some people are embarrassed to collect unemployment insurance, though they're the extreme. At least for many men I know, it's embarrassing in the same way that it's embarrassing to "let" their wives mow the lawn: it's their job to do it, and it makes them uncomfortable.
- People make more money on welfare than on a minimum wage job
I don't know what minimum wage is where you're at, but it's still $5.15 in Wyoming. For a single person with a single child, it is absolutely easier to make more than you would working multiple fast food jobs by collecting from misc. federal and state welfare programs for food, housing, etc.
For instance, I know of a single mother of two who is able to make her rent in a 2-bedroom apartment, buy food exclusively from healthfood/organic stores (think: Trader Joe's, but more expensive), own a working vehicle, and take semi-regular trips to visit friends and family. She hasn't had a job since at least 2004, but her children get better healthcare than many working people I know. (She's also disenfranchised from her family.)
California's minimum wage is more than I made in a 'professional' non-helpdesk IT job 7 years ago. Not everywhere in the country works on the same wage scales.
- Either: the few people who somehow "game the welfare system" make it not worthwhile for those who use it as a legitimate safety net - Or: most people who are on welfare are gaming the system and riding the gravy train
Yeah, it's a full-time job to game the system. The safety net is set so low, however, that by the time you actually need it, it's not going to be all that effective at catching you as you fall. It's set that low due to all the people who intentionally climb to the top floor to repeatedly jump off.
- Welfare is cheating you out of your hard-earned money
I don't know about that, but I do know that the single woman I spoke of earlier is cheating the system through the 'free' money.
- You, yourself, will never need a safety net
Bold words. I've needed one (several times), and for several weeks attempted to get it. By the time I 'qualified', I was up to my neck in bills and a day from my first paycheck at the next (temporary, part time) job. Had I not spent so much time dealing with the inane bureaucratic hoops I had to jump through to get the welfare checks (incl. the measly 'unemployment insurance' check), I'd have probably found another job sooner.
I've also been 'unemployed' long-term. More than 6 months. There comes a point (about 3 months in, if you haven't got much for savings) where you've either got to commit to gaming the system full time or "make ends meet" in some other way, because an empty fridge and overdue utility bills just don't cut it. This means several part time jobs amounting to over 50 hour work weeks, taking full part in your local barter economy, and yes, even illegal activities like taking wild game out of season (for many).
Here in South Dakota, I have a problem with ice forming on my glasses after coming indoors. It doesn't last long, because the indoor air warms the material fairly quickly and the low humidity causes it to evaporate fairly fast.
I'm from South Dakota, but just got back last month from a year's internment in California - you know, where most tech companies and many data centers are. It's got a similar climate to Texas, supposedly, where there is also a lot of tech.:P
It gets down to -20F very normally out here during the winter. With temperatures that low, there is very little moisture in the air indoors, either. So there isn't going to be all that much condensation. The best thing to do is leave the server in the box for several hours in a warm room. The ambient humidity is so low that not much condensation will form; likewise, the air is so dry that anything that does form will evaporate very quickly. A general policy I've made is any systems coming in during the winter need to sit in the box for at least 3 hours so they warm up slowly, and the machines have to sit for at least 5 hours before they get powered up.
At these low temperatures, your biggest concern is ESD. It can be bad. Carpet, linoleum, raised floors, anything. It can get uncomfortable. Don't wear any polyester or wool, you will regret the shocks, and they can be jarringly painful and regular.
This is news for people in places like California, where most people may never have seen a 'real' snowfall. The concept that not only does it get 'cold' outdoors but it also gets significantly colder than the inside of a walk-in freezer is mind blowing to many of these people.
You don't need a "special diet", but you need to exploit a regional food culture that accounts for the lack of meat. Vegans that try to claim otherwise are going to hurt people and their own "cause".
That last part is probably good thing. The environmental impact from people being vegan is not something the world needs. Unless you're also eating primarily fresh foods, the amount of processed goods you consume is going to greatly outpace the impact from meats through packaging, processing, and transportation.
B12. It's not difficult to get through "vegan foods", it's impossible to get unless you're eating animals or their byproducts.
Was she a good lay after the shot?:P My guess is that her skin pallor, complexion, and sexuality was all fairly improved immediately following said shot. Naturally, all other organs were behaving in a better fashion after said shot as well.
Veganism is a mental disorder, much like extreme social political preference. There is no explicable reason why a person - a higher order mammal - would avoid eating any animal, but prefer plants instead, when it has been repeatedly shown scientifically that it's an unsustainable diet - much akin to things like starvation.
It's a real shame to see a beautiful person destroy their mind and body through a vegan or fruitarian diet. Truly a shame.
A specialist would (reasonably) reject such a system due to its needless complexity.
Sorry, but complex is the enemy of secure. "I've got x installed for y but z innstalled for zy" doesn't cut it. Too many bushes to beat. KISS has its place, and that's most places. It would be better to completely and indepenently virtualize something than deal with the complexity of a homogenous 'oneness' system as proposed, from a sysadmin perspective.
That said, it does have a certain novel appeal for the hobbist. It's a good idea, it's just a very beta implementation thereof.
You can do the 'firefox without dbus' thing fairly easily without leaving debian (stable), too, you know: compile it from a src package. It's not as straightforward, no. But it doesn't necessitate the complexity you're put in place to do so.
That said, there may be an inherent security benefit to doing so.
I've not yet looked at what you have to offer, but based off my UID and your own, I do consider you 'new around these parts' - I'm not exactly an old fish in this pond myself. Maybe that's a part of my conservative nature.
That said, I intend to look at what you have to offer and assess it non-impartially. If it sucks, it sucks - you learned a lesson and had a good time, accomplishing something personally. My resume has a number of such experiences.
Slaves hated Lobster for much the same reasons that people today prefer things like beef or "rabbit starvation" is named after rabbits.
Lobsters, like rabbits, have very low fat content. If your meat does not have fat, you are going to have to figure out how you're going to get fat into your diet.
Substituting starches for fats is not going to help you long-term. Your body will convert those starches into fat, yes - but the body will store it and not use it directly. You'll end up being hungry shortly after eating. You'll also end up suffering mental disorders due to fat nutrient deficiency over time.
But yeah. Lobster's great and all, but there's a damn good reason people dip it in butter sauce.
Eating a diet of bugs will suffer the same problem. They have zero fat.
religion is about people as a group trying to find a spiritual part of themselves.
Na, religion is more about finding a way to prolong your existence, whether it's through perpetual immortality, breeding, reincarnation, facial creams and yoga, etc.
And for some religions, religion is about trying to cut off the spiritual part of others for failing to recognize their own as superior.
Very little of global religion is about finding "inner peace". The growth of crazy, restrictive religions throughout the world over the past 30 years while the Buddhists are persecuted by surrounding governments and religions should be evidence enough of this.
There's also the NYC Metro System, a part of the Metro Transit Authority. They could've done it, too. Point being: it's a common name, nobody should be using it to describe their product.
Metro is a truly foolish name. Metros smell like piss, have disturbed disturbing people wandering them, are usually slow and inconvenient, and are generally avoided.
But, maybe it's just some city's Metro system wanting to avoid the negative stigma of being associated with the negative stigma a Microsoft product?:P
Personally, I'll just call Windows ME II, aka "Windows? Me-too!" They've done a splendid job of butchering the worst UI concepts from Apple, Unity, and Windows, throwing them into a blender with a bunch of dicks, and coming out with something resembling a product.
It's plainly obvious that Microsoft wants to push all their customers to Cloud services and do away with 'serviceable' clients on-premises. Exchange is moving that way already. They're shackling W8 to Microsoft signon services.
Basically, they're trying to do what Google did with Android, but for general purpose computers.
clearly, the word is common and abstract enough that anyone can claim it's usage
Yeah, because "style" isn't common at all?
People don't refer to it as Metro, mostly. They refer to it as "the Windows 8 UI", or "that piece of shit, I'm switching to Linux, UI".
Someone's recommendation, above, was much better: Windows Start UI. Hell, calling it "Windows Style UI" would've been better (as in, "Style UI is cutting edge bullshit we came up by throwing darts at a mime one Friday while drinking").
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The one running Windows, slated for release RSN, last I heard. Maybe that fell through the floor. Personally, I'd love to get an Asus x86 Atom netbook/tablet (and run Android/Debian/wahtever on it).
Tea Party supports Freedom from government and lawyers how? They are a another tool to get the useful idiots to vote in policies that hurt themselves. Ask those folks about their stance on gay marriage and watch how fast they support government intrusion into people private lives.
That phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but "less government" is somewhat at odds with useful idiots - the end game scenario of which is bigger government, regardless of its color.
I went from Debian 4 to Ubuntu 8.04 (if memory serves). I used it until 10.04, which I dropped about 4 years ago. I'm now using Debian Stable again, and can't rightly say why I ever left. Ubuntu's become a huge pain in the ass.
Add to that:
* Asus (Making x86 and ARM tablets running Android - they've been doing PCs for years)
You're falling prey to the same faulty reasoning the mainstream media does all the time.
No, it is not "just 1 degree C". It's also:
cyclical El Nino patterns resulting in:
* a warm winter
* negligible snow fall
* low rainfall over land in CONUS
When we have flooding in a couple years from El Nina, the climatologists will blame that on global warming, too (just as they have since the 1990s, when sun activity had nothing to do with it, either, of course).
When you multiply the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of the oceans and air by 1 degree, it's a number that's off the charts. How did people think we could dump that much energy into any system and it would not make a difference?
Cute. I suppose we could explode a bunch of atom bombs and blow up all our nuke reactors, but aside from that, I'm not sure. That may not even do it. Do you have any ideas?
Well, we're talking about global warming here, remember.
Compared to the reasoning and methodologies found in most of these 'studies', you could probably prove an increase in alien abductions with higher likely certainty.
I'm glad you like your job and think you're doing a good job at it. It's commendable, and it does seem like it's a good mass retail establishment to work at.
But here's the problem.
I think Geek Squad--much like Best Buy as a whole--gets a much worse rep than is deserved. I've said it before, and I'll say it again--they're far from perfect. But from what I've personally experienced, the majority of people who come to us leave satisfied.
Just because they're satisfied does not mean they got good, or even non-destructive, advise. You're a retail sales worker, and while you're likely going to be a cut above the people behind the electronic's cabinet at Walmart, it's not a foregone conclusion for even a fraction of the people in your position.
So when Fry's prices are usually less than half what Best Buy's are for common low-end items, and cheaper for identical or superior high-end items, why go to Best Buy? Fry's has significantly more selection as well, and their employees are typically more professional and always better dressed.
And yet, when the common person is usually told at BB that it'll cost $300+ to fix their $500 computer, then they have the service done and it results in all their files being deleted, it's somehow surprising that people dislike Best Buy, and has a bad reputation with everyone from your grandma to your geeky brother-in-law who works as a programmer?
There is nothing that Best Buy does which is even comparable in value to what I've seen elsewhere in the market. Even a local shop known for over-charging on hardware is going to provide more value for simple OEM parts, in my experience.
Being as I'm coming from experience on this, your statements are a bit absurd.
- People are not embarrassed to be on welfare
Um, many people are. Some people are embarrassed to collect unemployment insurance, though they're the extreme. At least for many men I know, it's embarrassing in the same way that it's embarrassing to "let" their wives mow the lawn: it's their job to do it, and it makes them uncomfortable.
- People make more money on welfare than on a minimum wage job
I don't know what minimum wage is where you're at, but it's still $5.15 in Wyoming. For a single person with a single child, it is absolutely easier to make more than you would working multiple fast food jobs by collecting from misc. federal and state welfare programs for food, housing, etc.
For instance, I know of a single mother of two who is able to make her rent in a 2-bedroom apartment, buy food exclusively from healthfood/organic stores (think: Trader Joe's, but more expensive), own a working vehicle, and take semi-regular trips to visit friends and family. She hasn't had a job since at least 2004, but her children get better healthcare than many working people I know. (She's also disenfranchised from her family.)
California's minimum wage is more than I made in a 'professional' non-helpdesk IT job 7 years ago. Not everywhere in the country works on the same wage scales.
- Either: the few people who somehow "game the welfare system" make it not worthwhile for those who use it as a legitimate safety net
- Or: most people who are on welfare are gaming the system and riding the gravy train
Yeah, it's a full-time job to game the system. The safety net is set so low, however, that by the time you actually need it, it's not going to be all that effective at catching you as you fall. It's set that low due to all the people who intentionally climb to the top floor to repeatedly jump off.
- Welfare is cheating you out of your hard-earned money
I don't know about that, but I do know that the single woman I spoke of earlier is cheating the system through the 'free' money.
- You, yourself, will never need a safety net
Bold words. I've needed one (several times), and for several weeks attempted to get it. By the time I 'qualified', I was up to my neck in bills and a day from my first paycheck at the next (temporary, part time) job. Had I not spent so much time dealing with the inane bureaucratic hoops I had to jump through to get the welfare checks (incl. the measly 'unemployment insurance' check), I'd have probably found another job sooner.
I've also been 'unemployed' long-term. More than 6 months. There comes a point (about 3 months in, if you haven't got much for savings) where you've either got to commit to gaming the system full time or "make ends meet" in some other way, because an empty fridge and overdue utility bills just don't cut it. This means several part time jobs amounting to over 50 hour work weeks, taking full part in your local barter economy, and yes, even illegal activities like taking wild game out of season (for many).
That will only work if the air inside the bag has near-zero humidity. Condensate will form inside the bag just as easily as outside it.
Here in South Dakota, I have a problem with ice forming on my glasses after coming indoors. It doesn't last long, because the indoor air warms the material fairly quickly and the low humidity causes it to evaporate fairly fast.
I'm from South Dakota, but just got back last month from a year's internment in California - you know, where most tech companies and many data centers are. It's got a similar climate to Texas, supposedly, where there is also a lot of tech. :P
It gets down to -20F very normally out here during the winter. With temperatures that low, there is very little moisture in the air indoors, either. So there isn't going to be all that much condensation. The best thing to do is leave the server in the box for several hours in a warm room. The ambient humidity is so low that not much condensation will form; likewise, the air is so dry that anything that does form will evaporate very quickly. A general policy I've made is any systems coming in during the winter need to sit in the box for at least 3 hours so they warm up slowly, and the machines have to sit for at least 5 hours before they get powered up.
At these low temperatures, your biggest concern is ESD. It can be bad. Carpet, linoleum, raised floors, anything. It can get uncomfortable. Don't wear any polyester or wool, you will regret the shocks, and they can be jarringly painful and regular.
This is news for people in places like California, where most people may never have seen a 'real' snowfall. The concept that not only does it get 'cold' outdoors but it also gets significantly colder than the inside of a walk-in freezer is mind blowing to many of these people.
You don't need a "special diet", but you need to exploit a regional food culture that accounts for the lack of meat. Vegans that try to claim otherwise are going to hurt people and their own "cause".
That last part is probably good thing. The environmental impact from people being vegan is not something the world needs. Unless you're also eating primarily fresh foods, the amount of processed goods you consume is going to greatly outpace the impact from meats through packaging, processing, and transportation.
Tell me, where do you get your B12?
Short of animal byproducts, where is someone going to get B12? Inquisitive minds want to know.
B12. It's not difficult to get through "vegan foods", it's impossible to get unless you're eating animals or their byproducts.
Was she a good lay after the shot? :P My guess is that her skin pallor, complexion, and sexuality was all fairly improved immediately following said shot. Naturally, all other organs were behaving in a better fashion after said shot as well.
Veganism is a mental disorder, much like extreme social political preference. There is no explicable reason why a person - a higher order mammal - would avoid eating any animal, but prefer plants instead, when it has been repeatedly shown scientifically that it's an unsustainable diet - much akin to things like starvation.
It's a real shame to see a beautiful person destroy their mind and body through a vegan or fruitarian diet. Truly a shame.
A specialist would (reasonably) reject such a system due to its needless complexity.
Sorry, but complex is the enemy of secure. "I've got x installed for y but z innstalled for zy" doesn't cut it. Too many bushes to beat. KISS has its place, and that's most places. It would be better to completely and indepenently virtualize something than deal with the complexity of a homogenous 'oneness' system as proposed, from a sysadmin perspective.
That said, it does have a certain novel appeal for the hobbist. It's a good idea, it's just a very beta implementation thereof.
You can do the 'firefox without dbus' thing fairly easily without leaving debian (stable), too, you know: compile it from a src package. It's not as straightforward, no. But it doesn't necessitate the complexity you're put in place to do so.
That said, there may be an inherent security benefit to doing so.
There already is. It's called pinning. It works quite well, even with things which are fairly low level, like pinning.
Debian has been running systemd for quite some time. You can still use sysvrc nomenclature, but it'll complain, but it's systemd from now on forward.
I've not yet looked at what you have to offer, but based off my UID and your own, I do consider you 'new around these parts' - I'm not exactly an old fish in this pond myself. Maybe that's a part of my conservative nature.
That said, I intend to look at what you have to offer and assess it non-impartially. If it sucks, it sucks - you learned a lesson and had a good time, accomplishing something personally. My resume has a number of such experiences.
The best of luck to you.
Slaves hated Lobster for much the same reasons that people today prefer things like beef or "rabbit starvation" is named after rabbits.
Lobsters, like rabbits, have very low fat content. If your meat does not have fat, you are going to have to figure out how you're going to get fat into your diet.
Substituting starches for fats is not going to help you long-term. Your body will convert those starches into fat, yes - but the body will store it and not use it directly. You'll end up being hungry shortly after eating. You'll also end up suffering mental disorders due to fat nutrient deficiency over time.
But yeah. Lobster's great and all, but there's a damn good reason people dip it in butter sauce.
Eating a diet of bugs will suffer the same problem. They have zero fat.
That was just the excuse they gave you for implicit state socialism and an over-burdened welfare system.
religion is about people as a group trying to find a spiritual part of themselves.
Na, religion is more about finding a way to prolong your existence, whether it's through perpetual immortality, breeding, reincarnation, facial creams and yoga, etc.
And for some religions, religion is about trying to cut off the spiritual part of others for failing to recognize their own as superior.
Very little of global religion is about finding "inner peace". The growth of crazy, restrictive religions throughout the world over the past 30 years while the Buddhists are persecuted by surrounding governments and religions should be evidence enough of this.
There's also the NYC Metro System, a part of the Metro Transit Authority. They could've done it, too. Point being: it's a common name, nobody should be using it to describe their product.
Metro is a truly foolish name. Metros smell like piss, have disturbed disturbing people wandering them, are usually slow and inconvenient, and are generally avoided.
But, maybe it's just some city's Metro system wanting to avoid the negative stigma of being associated with the negative stigma a Microsoft product? :P
Personally, I'll just call Windows ME II, aka "Windows? Me-too!" They've done a splendid job of butchering the worst UI concepts from Apple, Unity, and Windows, throwing them into a blender with a bunch of dicks, and coming out with something resembling a product.
Microsoft as a whole
It's plainly obvious that Microsoft wants to push all their customers to Cloud services and do away with 'serviceable' clients on-premises. Exchange is moving that way already. They're shackling W8 to Microsoft signon services.
Basically, they're trying to do what Google did with Android, but for general purpose computers.
clearly, the word is common and abstract enough that anyone can claim it's usage
Yeah, because "style" isn't common at all?
People don't refer to it as Metro, mostly. They refer to it as "the Windows 8 UI", or "that piece of shit, I'm switching to Linux, UI".
Someone's recommendation, above, was much better: Windows Start UI. Hell, calling it "Windows Style UI" would've been better (as in, "Style UI is cutting edge bullshit we came up by throwing darts at a mime one Friday while drinking").