1. They might not communicate with radio waves. Maybe they've developed other ways to communicate among themselves, and we can't detect that.
2. Why would they talk to us? Presumably they're interested in intelligent life, and we're questionable there. Maybe when we develop the means to travel beyond our solar system, they'll take notice. Whether that's good or not is debatable.
I agree. I have backups on my desktop, laptop, and two online sources. If GDrive is better/easier/more reliable than the others, it might become my main backup, but it will never be my ONLY backup.
As so many others have pointed out, It doesn't matter if the switchover happens 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years, or 30 years from now - you're going to have millions of people, most of them elderly or low income, who are going to turn on their TVs and say "What's wrong with this damn thing?" They don't read the news, they have no clue the switchover is coming, and they will scream bloody murder when it does.
Yeah, the networks really should have bombarded everyone with constant notices that the switch was coming. Oh, wait...
The NT kernel might have better security than Unix, but none of that is available to most NT users (pre-Vista). I don't know about XP Pro, but XP Home has very limited flexibility for permissions.
(1) My father refused to switch over to broadband until 2000, despite the pleas of his children. When he switched over, and suddenly didn't have to suffer the painful slowness of 56k, his comment was, said aloud, "Why the hell did I object to this?" (2) My mother-in-law has refused to switch over to broadband until this past year, even though the dial-up internet for her was so slow, cumbersome, and time-consuming, she almost never even used it anyhow. She'd pull out city maps and use the telephone for directions; I'd generally have to spend an extra 20 minutes figuring out how to get to our destination when at her home. When she switched, the convenience was too great to doubt.
My own experience is similar. I delayed getting broadband because of the cost, and because "56K should be fast enough for anyone". When I did get it, it proved as much a life changing event as the Internet itself. Maybe more so, since I didn't use the Internet that much on dial-up.
For most consumers, NT 3.1 was about as relevant as A/UX. Most of Microsoft's home users didn't get REAL preemptive multitasking and memory protection until XP. The Win95 line was probably better than Mac OS9, but still not good.
Conversely, we're watching a sugar firestorm for Obama. I feel sorry for the guy, they're laying it out for him like he's the Second Coming of Christ. It'd be almost impossible not to fall short of these expectations. His sugar firestorm is in direct reaction to the shit firestorm that Bush created for himself by being such a colossal fuckup. Between the wars, the bad economy, and the banal, incurious evil of the Bushies, America would be slavering all over a president who could pronounce "nuclear" properly and in fact we've got what appears to be a great selection with oodles of potential. I just fear that the sugar firestorm will slowly turn into a hype crash. Those of us who grew up on Star Wars and had our hopes up for Phantom Menace, you know well of what I speak.
I agree that the Obama hype will crash. But it will still be good to get Jar-Jar Bush out of there.:)
Yup! Shortly after Vista's release, my GF's sister asked me if she should buy a 512M computer with Vista. I expressed my opinion that anyone shipping a 512M box with Vista deserved the death penalty, so she ended up buying a machine with much more RAM, and was reasonably happy. But millions of people bought those underpowered craptops, and they're among the ones yelling about how badly Vista sux.
At the time of the ruling, Apple was dying, RedHat had just passed Slackware as the most popular Linux, iTunes didn't exist, Netscape 4.7 was IE biggest competiion, and I don't think Opera existed yet.
11 hour days (9 + lunch + commute) suck, but if I didn't have that extra day to handle car repair, house repair, etc, I'd have to take off work to handle it. I don't know how the people who work 5 days every week handle it.
Who is running against her? Does her opponent agree with her? If not, is he worse than her in other important ways? It's quite possible that the voters do know what they are doing; they just don't have anyone better to vote for.
Humans are not all the same, and what most humans were 10,000 years ago has little to do with our default abilities and preferences today. There is not even a linear progression, various climate and cultural filters have output humans with vastly different ideal environments.
There's really not that much difference between the city and the jungle. I watch out for cars, muggers, and mall bargins. My great-great-great grandpa watched for bears, wolves, and nice fresh fruit to eat.
As always, there are trade-offs. It would be nice if those ad-monkeys realized that I'm never going to buy female hygine products, and that I probably won't be buying a new car for awhile. But, I probably don't want the pastor of my church to see my FF bookmarks.
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I've always considered it more of a rear-end.
1. They might not communicate with radio waves. Maybe they've developed other ways to communicate among themselves, and we can't detect that.
2. Why would they talk to us? Presumably they're interested in intelligent life, and we're questionable there. Maybe when we develop the means to travel beyond our solar system, they'll take notice. Whether that's good or not is debatable.
I agree. I have backups on my desktop, laptop, and two online sources. If GDrive is better/easier/more reliable than the others, it might become my main backup, but it will never be my ONLY backup.
Yeah, the networks really should have bombarded everyone with constant notices that the switch was coming. Oh, wait...
Well, when I google my main cyber-persona, I get a lot of info on prehistoric cavemen. I can't imagine how that happens.
So, it DOES look like ass?
The NT kernel might have better security than Unix, but none of that is available to most NT users (pre-Vista). I don't know about XP Pro, but XP Home has very limited flexibility for permissions.
I also don't recommend clicking links posted by known idiots.
My own experience is similar. I delayed getting broadband because of the cost, and because "56K should be fast enough for anyone". When I did get it, it proved as much a life changing event as the Internet itself. Maybe more so, since I didn't use the Internet that much on dial-up.
For most consumers, NT 3.1 was about as relevant as A/UX. Most of Microsoft's home users didn't get REAL preemptive multitasking and memory protection until XP. The Win95 line was probably better than Mac OS9, but still not good.
We've had a shortage of such people from either party.
I agree that the Obama hype will crash. But it will still be good to get Jar-Jar Bush out of there. :)
Yup! Shortly after Vista's release, my GF's sister asked me if she should buy a 512M computer with Vista. I expressed my opinion that anyone shipping a 512M box with Vista deserved the death penalty, so she ended up buying a machine with much more RAM, and was reasonably happy. But millions of people bought those underpowered craptops, and they're among the ones yelling about how badly Vista sux.
Two reasons:
1. XP will become unsupported
2. It sux less than Vista.
Of course, those reasons don't count if you use Linux or OSX.
At the time of the ruling, Apple was dying, RedHat had just passed Slackware as the most popular Linux, iTunes didn't exist, Netscape 4.7 was IE biggest competiion, and I don't think Opera existed yet.
I thought that only happened in Soviet Russia.
11 hour days (9 + lunch + commute) suck, but if I didn't have that extra day to handle car repair, house repair, etc, I'd have to take off work to handle it. I don't know how the people who work 5 days every week handle it.
Presumably, he was making a lot more when he got that mortgage. NOW he's reduced to $250/week.
We're not allowed to let the date slip. We just cut out the tests for lead so we can ship the painted product on time. What could go wrong?
OTOH, Debian has shown that the "we'll release it when it's ready" policy can lead to some really old software.
Who is running against her? Does her opponent agree with her? If not, is he worse than her in other important ways? It's quite possible that the voters do know what they are doing; they just don't have anyone better to vote for.
Win95 really was a full-blown OS, even though it still had a lot of DOS code.
That explains all those people mumbling about brains.
There's really not that much difference between the city and the jungle. I watch out for cars, muggers, and mall bargins. My great-great-great grandpa watched for bears, wolves, and nice fresh fruit to eat.
As always, there are trade-offs. It would be nice if those ad-monkeys realized that I'm never going to buy female hygine products, and that I probably won't be buying a new car for awhile. But, I probably don't want the pastor of my church to see my FF bookmarks.