If there is anything un-american in the political landscape of the USA, it's the fake two party democracy that is essentially a single party dictatorship in disguise.
Actually the fake two party democracy is VERY American, unfortunately.
That's basically how it looks from beyond the pond.
And something else that's very American is not really caring what the outside world thinks of our political system! (Not meant as a troll, just saying...)
And if I were a phisher, I'd set up my own "data loss database", complete with query screen where you can input your SSN, date of birth, mother's maiden name etc. to see if it's been "lost". How many idiots do you think I could catch with that one?
Sometimes I really think I should use my mind for evil, there certainly appears to be lots of money in it...
When the system calculates withholding for taxes and such, there are these fractions of a penny left over. Usually the system just rounds the amounts, but what if he introduced code into the system to round all the amounts down and put the extra fractions into an account.
How horrible... that's like taking pennies from crippled children!
If you use Google Apps, you do not have as easy access to: Reader, Photos, and other Google utilities that are provided with a general GMail account.
You don't have easy access under the same login, no, but there's no reason you can't create a Gmail login for all that other stuff and just don't use if for email; that's exactly what I do since I got tired of running my own mail server. And the two logins don't even step on each others' cookies; I stay logged in to both by Google Apps (free) and Gmail accounts.
The stuff that is included with Google Apps is the stuff that makes sense to integrate with email, e.g. you can send documents attached to email right to Google Docs from the email screen. I can't think of a good reason that your Reader and Email logins need to be the same though. Sure, it would be a bit more convenient, but there really isn't any missing functionality.
Actually it's the other three parties that are being censored; so much that I bet few of you even know who their candidates are.
Those other parties do just as much to marginalize themselves as they are censored by the "main" two. I consider myself a pretty libertarian kinda guy but I've never met a moderate capital-L Libertarian. I think there are a lot of people who would be receptive to a policy of personal freedom, personal responsibility, and reigning in spending but then every Libertarian candidate I've met starts talking about abolishing public schools and closing down federal parks.
Yeah, I understand where they're coming from, but those positions are very unpalatable to most Americans and so they're not taken seriously. If they would actually try to get elected instead of relegating themselves to "principled opposition" status then I think the GOP would be in trouble. Same with the Greens and Dems.
WINE is the most mature Windows compatibility layer there is, and the best Microsoft could do is contribute to it, which you know very well they won't.
Um, no, Windows is the most mature Windows compatibility layer there is, and unlike everyone else, Microsoft has the source code to it. They could very quickly create a compatibility layer in any new OS they come up with, much like Apple did when moving from OS 9 to OS X.
What are you going to do, run Microsoft Ubersystem as a pure RDP client to Windows XP, which will be unsupported by then?
Don't think RDP, think hypervisor. And Microsoft will support whatever it comes up with. All those old apps will continue to work, but just like OS 9 apps they will gradually be phased out and deprecated for their shiny new native counterparts, which Microsoft will gladly sell to everyone at their upgrade prices.
Which do you think your typical corporate PHB will favor, running their old apps in WINE on Linux, or running them in a Microsoft supported emulation layer in the newest Microsoft OS?
(I know I probably shouldn't say this... but I can't stop typing!)
You see, this is why ____ will never make it. If I have to keep using these obscure command line fixes in order to make my system work the way I want, regular people will never use it.
Sarcasm duly noted, but of course in both Linux and Windows there's usually a way to do the same thing via GUI as well. In this particular case, go to Administrative Tools from the Start Menu (sometimes it's not there by default, in which case you need to go to Start Menu properties to enable it), click Services, select Windows Automatic Update service, then click Stop.
Of course, in Windows, sometimes when you Stop a service, Windows will helpfully decide for you that you didn't really mean to stop it, and will automatically restart it again a little while later, unless you switch it to Disabled. Just be sure to un-Disable it the next time you reboot...
Windows Updates are so damn obnoxious that I always consider turning it off and doing my updates manually.
C'mon, what's so obnoxious about that little shield asking you every 5 minutes, "You need to reboot your PC because I just updated your web browser and a few other nonessential apps. You wanna reboot now? How about now? Huh? Can I reboot now? OK, if you don't reboot now, then the next time I ask I'll pop up the OK button right under where you were about to click and you'll lose all your work anyway..."
These numbers are simply unacceptable. With all these free services such as Gmail, Twitter, and NetZero, the failure of all these people to go get their free Internets can only be attributed to laziness.
Also, "I reboot my computer... why should I have to reboot my computer?" I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs.
If you think that rebooting your entire computer to install movie maker software (or installing/updating anything besides the kernel for that matter) is acceptable, then you are also obviously a Windows user and a complacent one at that. Maybe Gates noticed how other OSes don't require a reboot for every piece of software you install and was calling his engineers to action that Windows should be the same.
Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency operate as rogue legislative bodies. They create regulations, which generally are not laws passed by Congress.
There are no checks and balances between the EPA and the Executive Branch, because the EPA itself is unconstitutional.
Um, not quite. Congress passes laws to create the agencies, and gives those agencies specific authority to pass regulations within a specific realm. It's called "delegation". Congress can't possibly keep up with the resources necessary to do the types of investigation etc. that the EPA does, so they create the agency to do it for them.
Another reason I'll never take MySpace seriously is that from the very first time I used it until the most recent time I logged in (last week sometime), it continues to say that I "am in my extended network". I have a really hard time taking any website seriously when they can't even detect if the profile you're viewing is your own, as opposed to Facebook that at least enables admin and settings links within your own profile.
Maybe I'm just being overly pedantic here, but that little bug just really annoys the geek in me (insert joke here about real geeks not being caught dead on MySpace...)
They were also gonna go back and recapture that famous 1983 photo of Gates laying across the desk all sultry-like, but he broke a hip trying to strike his pose...
Which goes to show: a lawsuit is far more powerful than the saber rattling of an anonymous e-mailer with bad grammar.
Just think, with proper grammar and some respect, Markus might have been able to motivate Mr. Vang to be a bit more interested in meeting the requirements of using GPL code. This whole thing might have been resolved with out lining the pockets of more lawyers.
But that just gives others an incentive to try to steal GPL software, and only post the source if they "get caught". The FSF is using these high-profile cases to raise awareness of the GPL and that it's not just "public domain". I have no problem lining the pockets of lawyers if that money comes from thieves who steal from the hard work of others and give nothing back in return.
Hehe... so they're informing users of their epic failure to properly plan for a surge in traffic due to a highly publicized event that they knew about well in advance -- using Twitter. Kinda ironic.:)
A sphere of finite volume can hold only a finite amount of oil. No matter how efficient or high-tech your extraction, finite is finite, unless you're using nanotechnology to make oil out of other stuff. Eventually we will run out...
That's right, the universe only has a finite amount of mass. At some point we'll no longer be able to produce energy at all. So why even bother?
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Mini is great for simplified browsing, but Mobile is just so much nicer for "real" browsing.
Agreed... about the best thing one can say about Opera Mini is that it's better than PIE.
If there is anything un-american in the political landscape of the USA, it's the fake two party democracy that is essentially a single party dictatorship in disguise.
Actually the fake two party democracy is VERY American, unfortunately.
That's basically how it looks from beyond the pond.
And something else that's very American is not really caring what the outside world thinks of our political system! (Not meant as a troll, just saying...)
And if I were a phisher, I'd set up my own "data loss database", complete with query screen where you can input your SSN, date of birth, mother's maiden name etc. to see if it's been "lost". How many idiots do you think I could catch with that one?
Sometimes I really think I should use my mind for evil, there certainly appears to be lots of money in it...
When the system calculates withholding for taxes and such, there are these fractions of a penny left over. Usually the system just rounds the amounts, but what if he introduced code into the system to round all the amounts down and put the extra fractions into an account.
How horrible... that's like taking pennies from crippled children!
I'm sure it's already patented by Rambus.
If you use Google Apps, you do not have as easy access to: Reader, Photos, and other Google utilities that are provided with a general GMail account.
You don't have easy access under the same login, no, but there's no reason you can't create a Gmail login for all that other stuff and just don't use if for email; that's exactly what I do since I got tired of running my own mail server. And the two logins don't even step on each others' cookies; I stay logged in to both by Google Apps (free) and Gmail accounts.
The stuff that is included with Google Apps is the stuff that makes sense to integrate with email, e.g. you can send documents attached to email right to Google Docs from the email screen. I can't think of a good reason that your Reader and Email logins need to be the same though. Sure, it would be a bit more convenient, but there really isn't any missing functionality.
Actually it's the other three parties that are being censored; so much that I bet few of you even know who their candidates are.
Those other parties do just as much to marginalize themselves as they are censored by the "main" two. I consider myself a pretty libertarian kinda guy but I've never met a moderate capital-L Libertarian. I think there are a lot of people who would be receptive to a policy of personal freedom, personal responsibility, and reigning in spending but then every Libertarian candidate I've met starts talking about abolishing public schools and closing down federal parks.
Yeah, I understand where they're coming from, but those positions are very unpalatable to most Americans and so they're not taken seriously. If they would actually try to get elected instead of relegating themselves to "principled opposition" status then I think the GOP would be in trouble. Same with the Greens and Dems.
WINE is the most mature Windows compatibility layer there is, and the best Microsoft could do is contribute to it, which you know very well they won't.
Um, no, Windows is the most mature Windows compatibility layer there is, and unlike everyone else, Microsoft has the source code to it. They could very quickly create a compatibility layer in any new OS they come up with, much like Apple did when moving from OS 9 to OS X.
What are you going to do, run Microsoft Ubersystem as a pure RDP client to Windows XP, which will be unsupported by then?
Don't think RDP, think hypervisor. And Microsoft will support whatever it comes up with. All those old apps will continue to work, but just like OS 9 apps they will gradually be phased out and deprecated for their shiny new native counterparts, which Microsoft will gladly sell to everyone at their upgrade prices.
Which do you think your typical corporate PHB will favor, running their old apps in WINE on Linux, or running them in a Microsoft supported emulation layer in the newest Microsoft OS?
(I know I probably shouldn't say this... but I can't stop typing!)
You see, this is why ____ will never make it. If I have to keep using these obscure command line fixes in order to make my system work the way I want, regular people will never use it.
Sarcasm duly noted, but of course in both Linux and Windows there's usually a way to do the same thing via GUI as well. In this particular case, go to Administrative Tools from the Start Menu (sometimes it's not there by default, in which case you need to go to Start Menu properties to enable it), click Services, select Windows Automatic Update service, then click Stop.
Of course, in Windows, sometimes when you Stop a service, Windows will helpfully decide for you that you didn't really mean to stop it, and will automatically restart it again a little while later, unless you switch it to Disabled. Just be sure to un-Disable it the next time you reboot...
Ah screw it, just install Linux. :)
Windows Updates are so damn obnoxious that I always consider turning it off and doing my updates manually.
C'mon, what's so obnoxious about that little shield asking you every 5 minutes, "You need to reboot your PC because I just updated your web browser and a few other nonessential apps. You wanna reboot now? How about now? Huh? Can I reboot now? OK, if you don't reboot now, then the next time I ask I'll pop up the OK button right under where you were about to click and you'll lose all your work anyway..."
Isn't that just general bio?
I think it's actually just basic geometry.
So e.g. we're desperately waiting for .NET 2.0 to work properly in Wine.
Huh? Are there really that many programs that use both Win32 APIs and .NET? Why not use Mono for the .NET apps?
These numbers are simply unacceptable. With all these free services such as Gmail, Twitter, and NetZero, the failure of all these people to go get their free Internets can only be attributed to laziness.
If you think that rebooting your entire computer to install movie maker software (or installing/updating anything besides the kernel for that matter) is acceptable, then you are also obviously a Windows user and a complacent one at that. Maybe Gates noticed how other OSes don't require a reboot for every piece of software you install and was calling his engineers to action that Windows should be the same.
Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency operate as rogue legislative bodies. They create regulations, which generally are not laws passed by Congress.
There are no checks and balances between the EPA and the Executive Branch, because the EPA itself is unconstitutional.
Um, not quite. Congress passes laws to create the agencies, and gives those agencies specific authority to pass regulations within a specific realm. It's called "delegation". Congress can't possibly keep up with the resources necessary to do the types of investigation etc. that the EPA does, so they create the agency to do it for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
They got the cables crossed. (I'm referencing the Foxtrot comic, 5th one down, but didn't want to hotlink...)
Another reason I'll never take MySpace seriously is that from the very first time I used it until the most recent time I logged in (last week sometime), it continues to say that I "am in my extended network". I have a really hard time taking any website seriously when they can't even detect if the profile you're viewing is your own, as opposed to Facebook that at least enables admin and settings links within your own profile.
Maybe I'm just being overly pedantic here, but that little bug just really annoys the geek in me (insert joke here about real geeks not being caught dead on MySpace...)
They were also gonna go back and recapture that famous 1983 photo of Gates laying across the desk all sultry-like, but he broke a hip trying to strike his pose...
however, I think that 1) ODF should be left alone (no EEE)
Hey, I'm using OpenOffice on my Eee PC right now, you insensitive clod!
Well of course there was no recipe-- that cake was a proprietary, closed-source dessert.
Yes, thank you for explaining the joke to us, it was way too difficult to understand.
But that just gives others an incentive to try to steal GPL software, and only post the source if they "get caught". The FSF is using these high-profile cases to raise awareness of the GPL and that it's not just "public domain". I have no problem lining the pockets of lawyers if that money comes from thieves who steal from the hard work of others and give nothing back in return.
Hehe... so they're informing users of their epic failure to properly plan for a surge in traffic due to a highly publicized event that they knew about well in advance -- using Twitter. Kinda ironic. :)
It doesn't. You must have upgraded from a FF2 user profile that had customized toolbars. A "clean" FF3 user profile has the buttons in place.
Oh yeah, time for Stephen King to right a new book.
He's wronged so many of his last books that it would be a good idea regardless.
I think you meant "it would be a good idea irregardless."
That's right, the universe only has a finite amount of mass. At some point we'll no longer be able to produce energy at all. So why even bother?