Just an FYI. You can have a TSA-approved lock on soft luggage and they can just go around it.
Stick a pen into the zipper track itself, pry the first couple teeth apart and it pops open. To make it look like nobody touched anything, you just run the zipper back around and it rezips everything.
But stop trying to fold in every half-assed pseudo-plugin into the browser! Allow people the ability to install AT WILL, rather than forcing people to fuck around with your buggy, unstable alpha code!
This is why Mozilla was born in the first place! Bloat in Netscape!
And, while you're at it, get someone developing Mozilla who actually BELIEVES in developing Mozilla. Not re-jiggering Mozilla to look and act like Chrome because you've got a hard-on for Chrome and want to fondle the Google cock.
Because the current leadership at Mozilla has exactly ZERO interest in continued development and bugfixing of their flagship product.
Hold on. Is it April first? Because that's GOT to be a joke.
Apple doesn't want, and cannot handle enterprise business.
Because enterprise customers, spending millions, aren't as forgiving of Apple's little "oopsies" the way their fanboy userbase is. And having technicians constantly going "Well try this piece of software and see if it does what you want" would get old quickly.
The Mac developer base couldn't support it (bless their eclectic little hearts...)
Now the elephant in the room. Apple's inherent undependability.
People have been throwing a shit fit for the past few years about Windows 8 and the lack of a START MENU. The reason Windows 8 didn't take off was because enterprise was NOT willing to absorb retraining costs.
What happens when Apple decides to go its own way again and literally changes PLATFORMS (a'la PPC to x86) at some point in the future? You think enterprise customers are going to take a risk like that?
FUCK NO!
Apple's cut themselves a foofy little niche amongst cool kids, artsie-fartsie types and people who don't know any better. They simply aren't equipped to deal with anything at the enterprise level.
Then come back and talk about it once we have a world power grid in place.
Until then, the fact that central Wath Libya, Papunya Australia and Kayenta Arizona are perfect environments for generating massive solar power doesn't help people in Patlong Lesotho, Christchurch New Zealand or Bangor Maine.
It's what's known as "putting the cart before the horse".
Sure, small-scale stuff gets done. But not everyone can afford to drop the cash for a solar array or a wind turbine. And not every place is suitable for doing so. Or should homeowners in Chicago be forced to climb out on their second and third story rooftops after a blizzard, risking life and limb, just to sweep off their panels? The main problem is that the current grid system(s) (PLURAL) simply aren't built for the sort of distributed input that renewables represents.
Fission nuclear power works NOW. And can tide us over on base load as we ramp up a modern power grid and increase renewables production to handle peak loads. Together, they can tide us over until we can perfect fusion or another form of clean power (vacuum energy extraction anyone?)
But his business management was so damn pedestrian that he took Apple from a growing company with a complete lock on the education and AV markets to an also-ran that became so afraid of innovation (mostly because Jobs had gone wild, running after any and everything, before that) that the company stagnated nearly to death.
He was okay as a brand manager. But absolute shit at actually LEADING the company and bringing forth new products.
If it actually hits anywhere close to the target power? If, even on a somewhat cloudy day it achieves even 1/3rd to 1/2 that? Hell yeah! If you have the area to actually drop an array like this, you might actually be better off using this than a bank of solar panels. The only "downside" to the end user is that you'd probably need to increase the size/depth of your storage system. As you'd have less reason to economize during a power outage.
It still has some issues with land use. But nowhere near as serious as the larger solar thermal facilities. And, given a large enough piece of property and the fact that the installation isn't fixed, could be rotated about the property periodically to minimize the impact even further.
Seriously! All of the apparent decision-makers at Mozilla have such a goddamn hard-on for Chrome.
Just fucking brand it "Chromezilla" and be done with it for fuck's sake. Then the rest of us can go look for another browse that actually does what we want.
They've simultaneously gutted AND bloated their browser. Gutted by removing features that made the browser something people wanted to use. And bloated with all the built-in add ons that nobody fucking uses.
This is one of the reasons we GOT Mozilla in the fucking first place! Because Netscape kept yanking useful features and dumping in crap nobody wanted or needed.
Well, if they want to base their community in a single social medium, so be it. When that community withers on the vine, hopefully, so will these dinosaurs.
So now you can hand me your credit card, which I can just swipe and - oh wait, no internet connection means I can't process the transaction.
Incorrect, credit card swipers can be set to work in disconnected mode. You can dump transactions later. The thing is, the merchant takes a chance that something might not fulfill (card gets reported stolen, bogus card with otherwise legit data, etc) when it his their transaction clearing house.
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Like this guy in volunteering for a campus-wide beatdown.
Or maybe having his car reassembled in his living room some night.
Or having all the locks on his house and car threadlocked.
Pretty easy:
https://youtu.be/tbpKhHwwtiY
Done it myself for practice on my own luggage. The first couple links are the hardest. Once it's moving, piece of cake.
Just an FYI. You can have a TSA-approved lock on soft luggage and they can just go around it.
Stick a pen into the zipper track itself, pry the first couple teeth apart and it pops open.
To make it look like nobody touched anything, you just run the zipper back around and it rezips everything.
Oh. No doubt.
Still does jack and shit to alleviate all the pain that it caused.
Now that I've been on OS X for 3+ years I've never looked back. Its DE doesn't throw the baby out with the bath water every 12 to 18 months.
No, you just have to worry that some turtleneck will get in a snit and Apple will change hardware platforms.
Seriously.
If Mozilla wants to do other projects, GREAT.
But stop trying to fold in every half-assed pseudo-plugin into the browser! Allow people the ability to install AT WILL, rather than forcing people to fuck around with your buggy, unstable alpha code!
This is why Mozilla was born in the first place! Bloat in Netscape!
And, while you're at it, get someone developing Mozilla who actually BELIEVES in developing Mozilla. Not re-jiggering Mozilla to look and act like Chrome because you've got a hard-on for Chrome and want to fondle the Google cock.
Because the current leadership at Mozilla has exactly ZERO interest in continued development and bugfixing of their flagship product.
Hold on. Is it April first? Because that's GOT to be a joke.
Apple doesn't want, and cannot handle enterprise business.
Because enterprise customers, spending millions, aren't as forgiving of Apple's little "oopsies" the way their fanboy userbase is.
And having technicians constantly going "Well try this piece of software and see if it does what you want" would get old quickly.
The Mac developer base couldn't support it (bless their eclectic little hearts...)
Now the elephant in the room. Apple's inherent undependability.
People have been throwing a shit fit for the past few years about Windows 8 and the lack of a START MENU. The reason Windows 8 didn't take off was because enterprise was NOT willing to absorb retraining costs.
What happens when Apple decides to go its own way again and literally changes PLATFORMS (a'la PPC to x86) at some point in the future? You think enterprise customers are going to take a risk like that?
FUCK NO!
Apple's cut themselves a foofy little niche amongst cool kids, artsie-fartsie types and people who don't know any better. They simply aren't equipped to deal with anything at the enterprise level.
I want something that allows me to watch movies and/or episode-based content AS *I* want.
Their offerings of content have continued to get slimmer in the recent couple of years. And I'm finding myself using them less and less.
If Netflix stops delivering that content altogether, I stop subscribing.
And, if we start seeing ADS attached to the content, I'm fucking outta there so fast the wind of my passing will bowl you over.
The shit this guy dreamed up to scare the fuck out of people? Brain cancer? I believe it!
Scaring the crap out of people since at least 1971.
Haunting our nightmares since 1984.
We'll miss you Wes. Just...don't come back and kill us in our sleep? Please?
I stand corrected...
Lennart Poettering
Bringing bloat to Unix since...2009?
Then come back and talk about it once we have a world power grid in place.
Until then, the fact that central Wath Libya, Papunya Australia and Kayenta Arizona are perfect environments for generating massive solar power doesn't help people in Patlong Lesotho, Christchurch New Zealand or Bangor Maine.
It's what's known as "putting the cart before the horse".
Sure, small-scale stuff gets done. But not everyone can afford to drop the cash for a solar array or a wind turbine.
And not every place is suitable for doing so. Or should homeowners in Chicago be forced to climb out on their second and third story rooftops after a blizzard, risking life and limb, just to sweep off their panels? The main problem is that the current grid system(s) (PLURAL) simply aren't built for the sort of distributed input that renewables represents.
Fission nuclear power works NOW. And can tide us over on base load as we ramp up a modern power grid and increase renewables production to handle peak loads. Together, they can tide us over until we can perfect fusion or another form of clean power (vacuum energy extraction anyone?)
Sure, the guy ran Pepsico for a while.
But his business management was so damn pedestrian that he took Apple from a growing company with a complete lock on the education and AV markets to an also-ran that became so afraid of innovation (mostly because Jobs had gone wild, running after any and everything, before that) that the company stagnated nearly to death.
He was okay as a brand manager. But absolute shit at actually LEADING the company and bringing forth new products.
We're delivering gigabit cable! And you get a 300GB data cap, plus it costs $500/month!
SUCH A DEAL right?
Looking at the image a good wind will turn these things into tumble weeds.
Actually, if properly staked in? Probably not.
If it actually hits anywhere close to the target power? If, even on a somewhat cloudy day it achieves even 1/3rd to 1/2 that? Hell yeah!
If you have the area to actually drop an array like this, you might actually be better off using this than a bank of solar panels.
The only "downside" to the end user is that you'd probably need to increase the size/depth of your storage system. As you'd have less reason to economize during a power outage.
It still has some issues with land use. But nowhere near as serious as the larger solar thermal facilities. And, given a large enough piece of property and the fact that the installation isn't fixed, could be rotated about the property periodically to minimize the impact even further.
Not saying the western medical community doesn't.
But we keep seeing these big, game-changing announcements out of "eastern" medical researchers. Only to have them turn out to be massive frauds.
This is where the message of "Yes. We can!" became "No. We can't!"
Translation: of COURSE it's merely political theater.
Online petitions have ALWAYS been worthless. As they're infinitely easy to merely ignore or just say "No" to.
Whether or not this is a genuine discovery, or yet another Chinese Hoax.
Seriously! All of the apparent decision-makers at Mozilla have such a goddamn hard-on for Chrome.
Just fucking brand it "Chromezilla" and be done with it for fuck's sake. Then the rest of us can go look for another browse that actually does what we want.
They've simultaneously gutted AND bloated their browser. Gutted by removing features that made the browser something people wanted to use. And bloated with all the built-in add ons that nobody fucking uses.
This is one of the reasons we GOT Mozilla in the fucking first place! Because Netscape kept yanking useful features and dumping in crap nobody wanted or needed.
And Mozilla has basically repeated history.
Well, if they want to base their community in a single social medium, so be it.
When that community withers on the vine, hopefully, so will these dinosaurs.
So now you can hand me your credit card, which I can just swipe and - oh wait, no internet connection means I can't process the transaction.
Incorrect, credit card swipers can be set to work in disconnected mode. You can dump transactions later. The thing is, the merchant takes a chance that something might not fulfill (card gets reported stolen, bogus card with otherwise legit data, etc) when it his their transaction clearing house.
No. I've been to cons in Columbus and Indy in the past. This year, my phone actually worked. I was stunned.
Previously, ANYTHING inside the convention center couldn't pull data worth shit. Phone call quality was rock bottom as well.
And that's pretty much what was happening. They were blocking pretty much everything save basic service.
Agreed. It's actually cheaper to go through the convention and get a dialup line if you need connected credit card processing.
I've been to cons in Columbus and Indy. And I've had my cell disrupted by these jackasses.
Glad they finally got what was coming to them.