Just turn the fucking thing off, okay? For ONE FUCKING DAY?
It's been about a year since I had cable or satellite service. I've just used my TV for watching DVDs, but you've convinced me to subscribe to DirecTV again.
While blogs are interesting to read, they are by no means a good news source.
Tell it to Dan Rather.
They are usually biased and the writers are normally amateurs spouting incompetent opinions...and the irony meter vanishes into a cloud of expanding plasma.
If you can replace the fossil fuel system you would have to discard the following items:
No, the owners of those assets would have to deal with their obsolesence. That doesn't confer any power to them to prevent customers from switching to alternatives.
Exxon will never make this change
Who says they have to? The oil business isn't a monopoly.
"Xerox PARC was a great environment because they had great people, enough money to build real systems, and management that protected them from management."
Yes, PARC was a great success in every way, and made fortunes for everybody but Xerox.
Actually, I'm more or less indifferent to Google. I use their search engine all the time, but they have almost no effect on my current line of work. What I was wondering is why anyone should care what the VCs think of them.
Since this is an accomplishment not by American Industry and is contrary to the current powerbrokers of Dino-fuels it won't mean shit in America.
Nonsense. If people can make money selling biodiesel, or save money using it, they will. The oil companies do not have the power to trump the law of supply and demand.
Now think about a particle 1/20th the size of most earthbound stuff with a much stronger static charge. It's going to stick very, very tightly to whatever its on.
Until it gets into the spacecraft, where the humidity will tend to dissipate the charge, allowing the dust to become airborne, as evidenced by the fact that the astronauts could smell it.
So as the polar icecaps melt, won't the sea level go down?
No.
Most of the Antartic ice cap is on land, and a great deal of ice in northern lattitudes is in glaciers on Greenland, Asia, and North America.
We could drop the world sea level by a dozen feet or so if we flooded the Sahara through Libya, though. We could power North Africa and most of southern Europe that way, too.
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Make your product with good, open source, drivers (or well documented specifications) and I'll buy your products.
Get a million people to make the same promise, and you're all set.
Money is not a problem. I spend a LOT of money on electronics and software.
A lot to you, perhaps. Not a lot to a business with employees and shareholders to take care of.
-jcr
And as much as I wish Wacom would support their old serial tablets under Mac OS X they absolutely refuse to do so.
Of course they do! You're asking them to spend money to let a vanishingly small portion of their installed base put off buying a new tablet.
Incidentally my project needs help with the preference pane, ADB, and Intuos components... any takers?
Umm... Nope.
My Wacom tablet is USB, and it works just fine with OS X.
-jcr
If I loaded KDE on here I could customize it to look basicly like OSX
The phrase "lipstick on a pig" springs to mind...
-jcr
Seriously!
Besides, what's this guy's problem anyway? He's got the source, why doesn't he just fix the bugs?
-jcr
Just turn the fucking thing off, okay? For ONE FUCKING DAY?
It's been about a year since I had cable or satellite service. I've just used my TV for watching DVDs, but you've convinced me to subscribe to DirecTV again.
-jcr
While blogs are interesting to read, they are by no means a good news source.
..and the irony meter vanishes into a cloud of expanding plasma.
Tell it to Dan Rather.
They are usually biased and the writers are normally amateurs spouting incompetent opinions.
-jcr
people who "meticulously hand optomize" their code annoy the crap out of me.
What's it to you how anyone else spends their time?
-jcr
Microsoft had no problem selling their $400 toy last week.
And look how well that's turning out..
-jcr
If you can replace the fossil fuel system you would have to discard the following items:
No, the owners of those assets would have to deal with their obsolesence. That doesn't confer any power to them to prevent customers from switching to alternatives.
Exxon will never make this change
Who says they have to? The oil business isn't a monopoly.
-jcr
"Xerox PARC was a great environment because they had great people, enough money to build real systems, and management that protected them from management."
Yes, PARC was a great success in every way, and made fortunes for everybody but Xerox.
Oh, wait...
-jcr
Actually, I'm more or less indifferent to Google. I use their search engine all the time, but they have almost no effect on my current line of work. What I was wondering is why anyone should care what the VCs think of them.
-jcr
And we're supposed to care why, exactly?
-jcr
The oil companies have a lot more power than you think they do.
Evidence, please?
-jcr
I presume you're talking about the US - one of the most socialist countries on the planet ...except for all of western Europe, hmm?
-jcr
Since this is an accomplishment not by American Industry and is contrary to the current powerbrokers of Dino-fuels it won't mean shit in America.
Nonsense. If people can make money selling biodiesel, or save money using it, they will. The oil companies do not have the power to trump the law of supply and demand.
-jcr
People leave Canada for a country with a better economy, and the government's solution is to spend more tax money! Brilliant move, eh?
-jcr
Now think about a particle 1/20th the size of most earthbound stuff with a much stronger static charge. It's going to stick very, very tightly to whatever its on.
Until it gets into the spacecraft, where the humidity will tend to dissipate the charge, allowing the dust to become airborne, as evidenced by the fact that the astronauts could smell it.
-jcr
I'm totally sure the Apollo astronauts opened up their visors
They did once they got back into the LEM. There certainly was an issue with moon dust inside the spacecraft.
-jcr
So as the polar icecaps melt, won't the sea level go down?
No.
Most of the Antartic ice cap is on land, and a great deal of ice in northern lattitudes is in glaciers on Greenland, Asia, and North America.
We could drop the world sea level by a dozen feet or so if we flooded the Sahara through Libya, though. We could power North Africa and most of southern Europe that way, too.
-jcr
We just need a Apollo program level of devotion to it .
Not even that.. Just getting some iron into the Pacific ocean west of South America would make a good start.
-jcr
How sad that a simple case of senile dementia gets publicized like this. The media should leave him alone.
-jcr
Wish you'd recorded that call, dude.
-jcr
A better question is, "Why does the UN have anything to do with computing at all?"
-jcr
It's a great deal brighter. Try looking at it side-by-side with the previous generation.
-jcr
Microsoft's response to this was nothing short of amazing, given my past experience dealing with their customer support.
They'd better be responsive about a product defect that can end up torching your kid.
-jcr