It mostly had to do with the case not getting fast tracked. Once they got that decision, they already won, since the delay would mean it wouldn't be finished under the existing president's term, allowing them to influence the DOJ with massive campaign donations to both parties.
Correct. There is also only one Highlander movie, no Star Wars prequels were made, there was only one season of Heroes. The world is a better place this way.
I don't like it, but it's clear that consumers are not all that interested in upgrading their computers anymore. The local box stores (Staples, Best Buy) failed to carry laptop DDR3, and often don't have any for desktops in stock either. When you look at their selection of RAM, it didn't fit in *any* of the products they sell.
I find it hard to imagine that a unified look and feel will be equally useful. The software is used on a very wide variety of devices with wildly different screen sizes, aspect ratios, and input devices. I don't WANT the same control scheme on my smartphone as my desktop!
Clearly this study will get a lot more interest if they come up with the incendiary result that scientific studies are increasingly fraudulent. With such obvious self-interest how can we possibly trust this study?
The day fast food is run by robots such that my lunch was assembled entirely by machine, I will dance in the streets. I don't care about the lost jobs. I don't care about economic meltdown.
I care that I will actually GET what I effing ORDER at the drive through!
Talk to your loved ones about their wishes.
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I know it's a difficult subject that many people are uncomfortable discussing, but please talk to your loved ones about their wishes regarding end of life care.
I recently lost my father. He was never one to discuss his feelings, but that wasn't much of a problem in life. I would have less terrible time if I understood his wishes clearly when it was time to decide to take him off life support.
I want to vandalize the ribbon designer's homes...
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I want to break into their houses, and take all of their possessions out of their closets and drawers and nail them shut. Then I'll lay all their stuff out in piles sorted by type and leave a note that says "There! Now you can find all of your stuff more easily! Have Fun!"
Don't pretend those warnings were well written. They boiled down to 'Do you want to run this? y/n", and it taught poorly educated users to just click yes/allow until it ran.
Who said it had to be completely closed? User available overrides with scary warnings should keep the average user safe and still allow power users to do what they want.
Most Slashdotters don't need much security beyond flashblock and noscript anyway.
I mean switching from a service that maintains a blacklist for users to a service that maintains a whitelist for users. Lock down systems so that only executables on the whitelist are allowed to run. New or modified executables, (or their hashes) get sent to the central subscription service to check to see if it should or shouldn't be added to the local whitelist. Newly patched Windows file? Allow. Popular program in use by a million subscribers to the whitelist service? Allow. Most other things? Don't allow.
The Supreme Court has created an exception to my 4th amendment rights to stop every vehicle on a road to check for drunk drivers. You call that doing nothing? I call it doing too much.
I want to break into the homes of the designers of the ribbon UI, take away all their cabinets, closets, and dressers, spead all their belongings on the floor in piles, grin, and congatulate them on their newly organized home where they can find everything more easily.
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excellence! for the Amiga had spell check as you type in 1991, as well as a grammar checker. Microsoft did not innovate those.
iThink iWill iGouge MiSelf.
It mostly had to do with the case not getting fast tracked. Once they got that decision, they already won, since the delay would mean it wouldn't be finished under the existing president's term, allowing them to influence the DOJ with massive campaign donations to both parties.
My vote would be Tahmoh Penikett.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671886/
(Helo from Battlestar Galactica for those that don't click the link)
Correct. There is also only one Highlander movie, no Star Wars prequels were made, there was only one season of Heroes. The world is a better place this way.
I don't like it, but it's clear that consumers are not all that interested in upgrading their computers anymore. The local box stores (Staples, Best Buy) failed to carry laptop DDR3, and often don't have any for desktops in stock either. When you look at their selection of RAM, it didn't fit in *any* of the products they sell.
All of them using Flash and Java. Most of which spend a lot of time unpatched. Even if they are, zero day exploits happen monthly.
Huh. How does it not apply to boxing, wrestling, and MMA?
I don't think charming naivete follows from the attitude of "Man, I have enough money. I'm going to do other things now."
I find it hard to imagine that a unified look and feel will be equally useful. The software is used on a very wide variety of devices with wildly different screen sizes, aspect ratios, and input devices. I don't WANT the same control scheme on my smartphone as my desktop!
Clearly this study will get a lot more interest if they come up with the incendiary result that scientific studies are increasingly fraudulent. With such obvious self-interest how can we possibly trust this study?
If Mr. Browne has ever purchased a used car, borrowed a book, DVD, or CD, then he is a hypocritical schmuck.
The day fast food is run by robots such that my lunch was assembled entirely by machine, I will dance in the streets. I don't care about the lost jobs. I don't care about economic meltdown.
I care that I will actually GET what I effing ORDER at the drive through!
I know it's a difficult subject that many people are uncomfortable discussing, but please talk to your loved ones about their wishes regarding end of life care.
I recently lost my father. He was never one to discuss his feelings, but that wasn't much of a problem in life. I would have less terrible time if I understood his wishes clearly when it was time to decide to take him off life support.
I want to break into their houses, and take all of their possessions out of their closets and drawers and nail them shut. Then I'll lay all their stuff out in piles sorted by type and leave a note that says "There! Now you can find all of your stuff more easily! Have Fun!"
Lewd mode on.
And the fact that the 'better' browsers all found a way to be delivered to users for no monetary cost has no bearing?
Before Microsoft spent millions developing IE and bundled it with Windows, browser software was something people bought.
Ohmygod... did that nearly happen? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!
Wow, cutting the Woz out? No way. He may be less famous, but he may be more important historically.
Don't pretend those warnings were well written. They boiled down to 'Do you want to run this? y/n", and it taught poorly educated users to just click yes/allow until it ran.
Who said it had to be completely closed? User available overrides with scary warnings should keep the average user safe and still allow power users to do what they want.
Most Slashdotters don't need much security beyond flashblock and noscript anyway.
I mean switching from a service that maintains a blacklist for users to a service that maintains a whitelist for users. Lock down systems so that only executables on the whitelist are allowed to run. New or modified executables, (or their hashes) get sent to the central subscription service to check to see if it should or shouldn't be added to the local whitelist. Newly patched Windows file? Allow. Popular program in use by a million subscribers to the whitelist service? Allow. Most other things? Don't allow.
I think an anti-malware scanner that ran from a boot disk and loaded the OS on the drive into a virtual machine would be an incredibly valuable tool.
Or we could just switch to cloud based security white-listing and kill the majority of the malware industry overnight.
The Supreme Court has created an exception to my 4th amendment rights to stop every vehicle on a road to check for drunk drivers. You call that doing nothing? I call it doing too much.
I want to break into the homes of the designers of the ribbon UI, take away all their cabinets, closets, and dressers, spead all their belongings on the floor in piles, grin, and congatulate them on their newly organized home where they can find everything more easily.