I still haven't even met an Apple user (or my clients, some of whom use Macs) who uses anything besides IE or Firefox. Safari just blows, elegant font rendering technology or not, IME.
Uh, you *do* know that a woman has a finite egg supply right? All the frozen sperm in the world wouldn't produce a child in a handful of barren women astronauts, whose eggs were laid to waste after years of space radiation. Meanwhile, a man creates millions of fresh little swimmers daily. So you damage the first 365 batches. There's a new one tomorrow!
I've written technical documentation on more than one occasion, and the problem with people reading it lies in the presentation, not necessarily the content.
Make people laugh, say something absurd, but stick to the details of what you're writing. If you include a little entertainment people are more likely to keep reading. Nobody wants to pick up a manual that reads like Encyclopedia Brittanica, but most manuals are written exactly that way.
Insightful? The reply below yours pwns your assumption. Sony is way more than the PS3 or any nerd-focused rootkit debacle. The public at large is still in love with Sony regardless of what some internet crybabies would have them believe.
You do realize that Google is static images taken on a single day right? There's a little difference between a static image from the past and a realtime stream. Also, my original argument about delineating your own privacy stands.
Ask England. London and other cities are wired to the tits with CCTV, microphones, etc. The populace there doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Not to say that Big Brother watching 24/7 is ok, but honestly...if I take a shower, walk out naked and stand in plain view of an open window, I could get in deep shit if someone sees me.
Now, let's take the paranoid cat lover's path on this. She has a wide open, second floor window facing the street. Anyone walking by can look in. Anyone with binoculars can see more than her cat. Yet she's upset that Google, by pure accident, put her cat on the internet. Sure, it would make me feel strange personally, but it's really a wake-up call for her. All this time anyone could have seen her cat, or her, or anything else that goes on inside her place while the window was 'open'. Not only that, but anyone could have photographed it.
What's next, kooks with skylights angry that geostationary satellites can see into their bedrooms? You have got to draw the line here with delineating your public and private life.
Legal or not, you have to first have the installation media and a valid key first. I'm not sure if Vista Business keys work on XP Pro. This was a short-term, must have everything working before Tuesday, Memorial Day weekend emergency.
I probably would have installed XP Pro because on paper, that Vaio was outstanding. Just plain ran out of time. Besides, the Macbook Pro looks great with their new truebright screens and the battery life is acceptable. The Vaio just barely squeaked out 2 hours with the power profile set to a medium-greed setting.
Regardless, Sony and everyone else needs to wake up and realize how bad Vista is for business, and at least give us options.
At least Dell wised up and started offering XP on new machines after the public outcry about Vista-ME. Sony still hasn't. I spent all weekend last weekend trying to get a brand new Vaio with Vista Business to behave (for a client). Never could get it working properly. Took it back to the Sony store with an angry look on my face and forced them to eat the 15% restocking fee and give my client a full refund. He ended up with a Macbook Pro and Boot Camp running XP Home. Couldn't be happier.
It's nice to see when someone really gets it. Gasoline, around the globe, isn't a supply and demand-priced commodity. Demand will always be there and as the worldwide population increases, it will only continue to rise. I give it about 20 years before we see a paradigm shift to alternative fuels like hydrogen really take hold. Even then, US corporations will prevent adoption until the last drop of oil is extracted from a previously protected wildlife reserve. NOW is the time that major infrastructure changes should be made, but instead of spending record profits on upgrading infrastructure, it's just going straight into the bank.
Don't be fooled by what CNN, Fox News, Wall Street Journal or anyone else tells you about the cause of oil prices. There are a hundred excuses at any given time and they are all lies. During Katrina, when we saw a huge spike, it was because Gulf refineries were damaged. Another week and it's trouble in Venezuela or Nigeria. Another week and it's failures in Iraq. None of it has any direct implications for Exxon and friends, because if it did, then they wouldn't be making huge profits...profits would be flat. The opposite is actually true and the current US administration is complacent on letting big oil do their thing.
However there has to be a limit. The more people spend on fuel, the less disposable income they have for other goods and services or even mortgages. Gas prices simply cannot continue to skyrocket while the economy limps along with GDP increases of 1.5% or less annually. Eventually it will become so expensive that people will trade in their Hummers for a Prius or start taking advantage of public transport (where available).
I really hate to even think of the US economy and fuel prices because the system is so corrupt there's not much you can do to influence change at this point. Just pray that we get a better administration in 2008.
Maybe you should move to LA, Dallas, or any other large city with smoking-nazi laws on the books. I can't believe you can't go eat a meal in a non-smoking restaurant. Bars? That's a different story altogether.
Yeah, you can replace "smoker" with "gay" or any minority group you dislike. A whiner is a whiner is a whiner. If you are severely allergic to smoke, then you don't go where people smoke. I'm highly allergic to poison ivy therefore I avoid the forest. I'm not a city boy by choice.;)
Cigarettes rarely, if ever, start fires in the wild. Lightning strikes and dry conditions are way more responsible than a cigarette being tossed out a window. I'm not defending irresponsible forest smokers, as anyone should properly dispose of anything burning by putting it out first, but nothing is more annoying than anti-smoker whiners.
Yeah, you're lucky I don't. The same can be said of scumbags that feel compelled to leave beer bottles at every stop sign and stoplight in some parts of town here.
Ya gotta love Slashdot. Every time you come here it's like visiting Grandma's house. Nothing ever moves around much and you can always depend on crusty hard candy in at least 2 dishes (with black licorice) and a cookie jar full of fresh Oreos.
Alas, the highschool *years* are golden, not high school itself. That's the key thing to remember here. I'm only 32 and I look back on those days with fondness, but nothing that went on within the confines of high school was worth a shit.
Not to mention a proper threading system. I've been Digging for years and I still can't stand or even understand their piss-poor threading implementation.
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I still haven't even met an Apple user (or my clients, some of whom use Macs) who uses anything besides IE or Firefox. Safari just blows, elegant font rendering technology or not, IME.
Uh, you *do* know that a woman has a finite egg supply right? All the frozen sperm in the world wouldn't produce a child in a handful of barren women astronauts, whose eggs were laid to waste after years of space radiation. Meanwhile, a man creates millions of fresh little swimmers daily. So you damage the first 365 batches. There's a new one tomorrow!
What a disappointing post. How can you mention Jamaica without throwing in some "irie, irie" or a pot reference? -1 unimaginative. :)
I've written technical documentation on more than one occasion, and the problem with people reading it lies in the presentation, not necessarily the content.
Make people laugh, say something absurd, but stick to the details of what you're writing. If you include a little entertainment people are more likely to keep reading. Nobody wants to pick up a manual that reads like Encyclopedia Brittanica, but most manuals are written exactly that way.
Insightful? The reply below yours pwns your assumption. Sony is way more than the PS3 or any nerd-focused rootkit debacle. The public at large is still in love with Sony regardless of what some internet crybabies would have them believe.
Chuck Norris? Bah. Jack Bauer is the new Chuck Norris.
Considering the market saturation of HD media players, it's actually pretty decent.
You do realize that Google is static images taken on a single day right? There's a little difference between a static image from the past and a realtime stream. Also, my original argument about delineating your own privacy stands.
Ask England. London and other cities are wired to the tits with CCTV, microphones, etc. The populace there doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Not to say that Big Brother watching 24/7 is ok, but honestly...if I take a shower, walk out naked and stand in plain view of an open window, I could get in deep shit if someone sees me.
Now, let's take the paranoid cat lover's path on this. She has a wide open, second floor window facing the street. Anyone walking by can look in. Anyone with binoculars can see more than her cat. Yet she's upset that Google, by pure accident, put her cat on the internet. Sure, it would make me feel strange personally, but it's really a wake-up call for her. All this time anyone could have seen her cat, or her, or anything else that goes on inside her place while the window was 'open'. Not only that, but anyone could have photographed it.
What's next, kooks with skylights angry that geostationary satellites can see into their bedrooms? You have got to draw the line here with delineating your public and private life.
Legal or not, you have to first have the installation media and a valid key first. I'm not sure if Vista Business keys work on XP Pro. This was a short-term, must have everything working before Tuesday, Memorial Day weekend emergency.
I probably would have installed XP Pro because on paper, that Vaio was outstanding. Just plain ran out of time. Besides, the Macbook Pro looks great with their new truebright screens and the battery life is acceptable. The Vaio just barely squeaked out 2 hours with the power profile set to a medium-greed setting.
Regardless, Sony and everyone else needs to wake up and realize how bad Vista is for business, and at least give us options.
At least Dell wised up and started offering XP on new machines after the public outcry about Vista-ME. Sony still hasn't. I spent all weekend last weekend trying to get a brand new Vaio with Vista Business to behave (for a client). Never could get it working properly. Took it back to the Sony store with an angry look on my face and forced them to eat the 15% restocking fee and give my client a full refund. He ended up with a Macbook Pro and Boot Camp running XP Home. Couldn't be happier.
They made the Buffalo Terastation for guys like you. Google it, it's not too expensive and is pretty much hands-off.
*golf clap*
It's nice to see when someone really gets it. Gasoline, around the globe, isn't a supply and demand-priced commodity. Demand will always be there and as the worldwide population increases, it will only continue to rise. I give it about 20 years before we see a paradigm shift to alternative fuels like hydrogen really take hold. Even then, US corporations will prevent adoption until the last drop of oil is extracted from a previously protected wildlife reserve. NOW is the time that major infrastructure changes should be made, but instead of spending record profits on upgrading infrastructure, it's just going straight into the bank.
Don't be fooled by what CNN, Fox News, Wall Street Journal or anyone else tells you about the cause of oil prices. There are a hundred excuses at any given time and they are all lies. During Katrina, when we saw a huge spike, it was because Gulf refineries were damaged. Another week and it's trouble in Venezuela or Nigeria. Another week and it's failures in Iraq. None of it has any direct implications for Exxon and friends, because if it did, then they wouldn't be making huge profits...profits would be flat. The opposite is actually true and the current US administration is complacent on letting big oil do their thing.
However there has to be a limit. The more people spend on fuel, the less disposable income they have for other goods and services or even mortgages. Gas prices simply cannot continue to skyrocket while the economy limps along with GDP increases of 1.5% or less annually. Eventually it will become so expensive that people will trade in their Hummers for a Prius or start taking advantage of public transport (where available).
I really hate to even think of the US economy and fuel prices because the system is so corrupt there's not much you can do to influence change at this point. Just pray that we get a better administration in 2008.
Of course I'm subject to correction, but I'm thinking it runs on VxWorks. Alot of embedded devices use it these days.
I agree with the fantastic comments from the people above, also known as "morans". ;) Too late, I know.
Maybe you should move to LA, Dallas, or any other large city with smoking-nazi laws on the books. I can't believe you can't go eat a meal in a non-smoking restaurant. Bars? That's a different story altogether.
Yeah, you can replace "smoker" with "gay" or any minority group you dislike. A whiner is a whiner is a whiner. If you are severely allergic to smoke, then you don't go where people smoke. I'm highly allergic to poison ivy therefore I avoid the forest. I'm not a city boy by choice. ;)
Cigarettes rarely, if ever, start fires in the wild. Lightning strikes and dry conditions are way more responsible than a cigarette being tossed out a window. I'm not defending irresponsible forest smokers, as anyone should properly dispose of anything burning by putting it out first, but nothing is more annoying than anti-smoker whiners.
Hahaha...man I'm lucky I just sat my coffee down before I read that. +1 if I had it dude, that was dumb and clever at the same time. :)
Yeah, you're lucky I don't. The same can be said of scumbags that feel compelled to leave beer bottles at every stop sign and stoplight in some parts of town here.
Ya gotta love Slashdot. Every time you come here it's like visiting Grandma's house. Nothing ever moves around much and you can always depend on crusty hard candy in at least 2 dishes (with black licorice) and a cookie jar full of fresh Oreos.
Alas, the highschool *years* are golden, not high school itself. That's the key thing to remember here. I'm only 32 and I look back on those days with fondness, but nothing that went on within the confines of high school was worth a shit.
I didn't know the local laws had the Goatse provision tacked on.
;)
Maybe the Democratic war chest bill had the same thing and that's why Bush vetoed it, that's the only way the veto would make sense.
Their pricing isn't really that screwed up, it's just not being subsidized like the Windows boxes are.
Not to mention a proper threading system. I've been Digging for years and I still can't stand or even understand their piss-poor threading implementation.