Insects can effectively evolve in a year because the typical insect lifespan is measured in DAYS, weeks at most.
So when you have 50+ generations in a year, you tend to see new things more often.
Plant lifespans are usually considerably more than that. Especially when you consider that many species of plants are programmed to let their seeds lie dormant for years/decades/centuries until just the right conditions arise. (which is thought to be the case here, if you RTFA)
As opposed to our lifespans of 70+ years, with new "generations" usually around every 20-30. It takes a bit longer for us to "evolve"
AOL has been dragging TW downhill ever since they merged. I look forward to the day when my RoadRunner no longer goes thru 3-5 extra hops in the ATDN.net network to get anywhere. Pre-merger; 10-14 hops to anywhere in the world. Currently; 15-18 hops, even inside the US.
And on a more personal note, I'm about to start working for TW, so it'll be nice not to have the AOL baggage.
This is no different than POTS... A rat can bite your phone line in your basement. The MUX at the end of the street could short out. The Central Office could get flooded.(this happened in my town. took out most of the phones AND all the DSL.) Some dumbass with a backhoe could cut a fiber line. That kills both your phone and your internet for that location...
Well the 8 office PC's (2K and XP), and 3 brand new vanilla installs of XP (not even connected to the internet) all seem to prove you wrong... I click the blue E, I get a new iexplore.exe process. I do CTRL-N from within IE, I get a new iexplore.exe process.
I gave you my proof. The burden is on you to explain why I'm wrong.
Did you even look at my screenshot? My 2 decades of computer industry work serve me just fine. I know every process that's running on my computer at any given time, and what that process is doing.
Just because it doesn't happen on your computer, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. How bout a screen shot of your task list? (and remember to check the little box that says show processes from all users) Especially since I can reproduce this on multiple machines, running multiple versions of windows, including brand new installs.
your post is a lovely example of what to do when you can't dispute the facts... attack the person. go away troll.
How is it FUD when I open my task manager and it lists;
iexplore.exe iexplore.exe iexplore.exe
each with a different PID, different memory allocation, different VM allocation...
It happens on this XPsp2 box, and on the 2Ksp4 box across my office. Have a screenshot to cure your own ignorance. http://www.cs-onp.com/files/elminst/iemem.JPG It's not FUD if it's true.
CTRL-TAB will switch between tabs in any Mozilla based browser. ALT-TAB for programs, CTRL-TAB for windows within program.
IIRC, Microsoft used to have this option in the Office programs. Until they somehow decided that opening an entirely new window for every document was somehow a good idea.:/
Not to mention that every IE window you open is a completely separate instance of iexplore.exe, each one using a minimum 15-20Meg of memory. Which means these 3 IE windows I have open right now are consuming 63 Meg (!!) of my Ram (18M when all minimized). But this firefox window, with 3 different webpages in tabs, is using a measely 13 Meg (down to 1.5M when minimized). I'll take firefox anyday.
That's because IE = Windows. A good number of the IE dlls are also dlls that Windows itself uses. (This is why you can surf the internet with windows explorer) So of course it runs faster. Lot quicker to utilize the dll when it's already in use by the OS.
Firefox runs like just another program, USING Windows, not PART of it.
That said, my personal experience puts FF as the faster browser in rendering pages, once you get past the initial "boot" of the program starting.
I would say that her reaction follows perfectly with the GP posts theory. Your mother is familiar with computers being boxes with keyboards and screens. She probably has 20-30 years of exposure to computers, all in this form. So of course a computer that is humanoid would be unfamiliar to her, and therefore freak her out.
Today's preschoolers will be growing up with more and more humanoid robots around, and therefore will not be bothered by them at all. I would even theorize that if, in 30 years, you showed them a "regular" (box, keyboard, screen), they wouldn't know how to react to it.
This is why you have a server. Servers are where you store your business files, email, etc.
My shop oversees a number of businesses who have policies that say something to the effect of "if you don't save your stuff to the server like we told/showed you 3 dozen times, we are not responsible for your fucking it up and losing it."
And it's a business machine. The company is not responsible for your baby pictures.
Business don't want you to show them how messed up their machines are and how much work you went through to remove the 1356 malicious files from the machine. They want the machine up and running ASAP, because as long as it's down, they're LOSING money.
Any idiot who thinks Windows works "right out of the box" has obviously never tried to use Windows "right out of the box".
Here is where you miss the point of "out of the box". When your average idiot buys a computer from Dell, Gateway, HP, $RESELLER. He gets it home, opens the box, plugs it in, and lo and behold it WORKS. That is what the phrase means. All Joe Luser knows about Windows is that he buys a computer and turns it on and it WORKS.
Currently, you cannot do this with Linux. Mainly because almost no one sells preconfigured Linux boxes that you can just plug in and work. Lindows barely scratches the surface.
Installing Windows from scratch is a totally different story. It is, as you say, fraught with perils. But this is the same no matter what OS you try.
Joe Luser doesn't care about installing windows or any other OS. He wants a computer that he plugs in and it WORKS. He gets this from all major distributors.
Until a major reseller can offer a Linux PC that does the exact same thing CONSISTENTLY, Joe Luser will not use Linux.
(the 4th alien movie where they repeatedly cloned ripley in order to recreate the alien queen, and ended up with a hideous pseudo-humanoid version; complete with saggy breasts *shudder*)
Support, quality are "here and now"?? Funny... Most people I know would define support as "will I get help with it when it breaks in 3/4/10/x years from now?"
Support is a long term feature. No one wants the 90 day warranty when the other guy has 5 years on his. That's not fickle, that's planning.
And Quality of the product translates DIRECTLY into how long it will last and is related to how long it is supported.
Price is definitely here and now, but it is a direct correlation to the above two factors. higher quality + better support almost always = higher price.
Your "long-sighted" view is directly related to the quality and support of the product. So two of your criteria are no different. The only difference is you do it for "free".
The Indian worker is getting paid a fraction of what you've just spent.
And here is the fallacy in your argument. That indian tech may be getting a fraction of what YOU make per year. But, he is getting MANY TIMES as much as as the average Indian worker. Wealth is RELATIVE to your PEERS. Read any news story on outsourced workers and you see that they have some of the best living and working conditions in their country. Some even better than a lot of American workers. And who says that Indian guy doesn't depend on his job? Why couldn't he have built a life around it? Just because they make fewer "American" dollars than you do, doesn't mean they're poor or any less deserving of what they have.
Everything is cheaper over there. The cost of living is way lower. This is why companies move their business there. They can pay him half what you make, and he still makes 3x as much as the next INDIAN worker.
Stop making the same WRONG argument that less american $$ = less skilled or less dedicated to one's job.
There was more contempt in your post than in its parent. You could do the SAME crime working as a first level hell-desk worker in the states. But I guess that would be okay because you "brought that work home."
Especially citing multiple sources of legitimate use. Talk to your friends on campus also. find as many people as you can that use BT for the same purpose, and write a joint letter, with lots of physical signatures.
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Insects can effectively evolve in a year because the typical insect lifespan is measured in DAYS, weeks at most.
So when you have 50+ generations in a year, you tend to see new things more often.
Plant lifespans are usually considerably more than that. Especially when you consider that many species of plants are programmed to let their seeds lie dormant for years/decades/centuries until just the right conditions arise. (which is thought to be the case here, if you RTFA)
As opposed to our lifespans of 70+ years, with new "generations" usually around every 20-30. It takes a bit longer for us to "evolve"
AOL has been dragging TW downhill ever since they merged.
I look forward to the day when my RoadRunner no longer goes thru 3-5 extra hops in the ATDN.net network to get anywhere.
Pre-merger; 10-14 hops to anywhere in the world.
Currently; 15-18 hops, even inside the US.
And on a more personal note, I'm about to start working for TW, so it'll be nice not to have the AOL baggage.
Sometimes a phone is just a phone.
And we like it that way.
You forgot... "and the terrorists will win!!"
This is no different than POTS...
A rat can bite your phone line in your basement.
The MUX at the end of the street could short out. The Central Office could get flooded.(this happened in my town. took out most of the phones AND all the DSL.)
Some dumbass with a backhoe could cut a fiber line. That kills both your phone and your internet for that location...
Well the 8 office PC's (2K and XP), and 3 brand new vanilla installs of XP (not even connected to the internet) all seem to prove you wrong... I click the blue E, I get a new iexplore.exe process. I do CTRL-N from within IE, I get a new iexplore.exe process.
I gave you my proof. The burden is on you to explain why I'm wrong.
Did you even look at my screenshot?
My 2 decades of computer industry work serve me just fine. I know every process that's running on my computer at any given time, and what that process is doing.
Just because it doesn't happen on your computer, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. How bout a screen shot of your task list? (and remember to check the little box that says show processes from all users)
Especially since I can reproduce this on multiple machines, running multiple versions of windows, including brand new installs.
your post is a lovely example of what to do when you can't dispute the facts... attack the person.
go away troll.
How is it FUD when I open my task manager and it lists;
iexplore.exe
iexplore.exe
iexplore.exe
each with a different PID, different memory allocation, different VM allocation...
It happens on this XPsp2 box, and on the 2Ksp4 box across my office.
Have a screenshot to cure your own ignorance.
http://www.cs-onp.com/files/elminst/iemem.JPG
It's not FUD if it's true.
CTRL-TAB will switch between tabs in any Mozilla based browser.
:/
ALT-TAB for programs, CTRL-TAB for windows within program.
IIRC, Microsoft used to have this option in the Office programs. Until they somehow decided that opening an entirely new window for every document was somehow a good idea.
Not to mention that every IE window you open is a completely separate instance of iexplore.exe, each one using a minimum 15-20Meg of memory. Which means these 3 IE windows I have open right now are consuming 63 Meg (!!) of my Ram (18M when all minimized). But this firefox window, with 3 different webpages in tabs, is using a measely 13 Meg (down to 1.5M when minimized).
I'll take firefox anyday.
That's because IE = Windows. A good number of the IE dlls are also dlls that Windows itself uses. (This is why you can surf the internet with windows explorer) So of course it runs faster. Lot quicker to utilize the dll when it's already in use by the OS.
Firefox runs like just another program, USING Windows, not PART of it.
That said, my personal experience puts FF as the faster browser in rendering pages, once you get past the initial "boot" of the program starting.
Except that last one....
That's not a moon! That's... ahh.. it's too easy.
Yeah.. but he hasn't posted in like 7 months...
;)
Maybe he'll be the name in the blank in that post a few down where Card gets beat up by Trek fans...
I would say that her reaction follows perfectly with the GP posts theory.
Your mother is familiar with computers being boxes with keyboards and screens. She probably has 20-30 years of exposure to computers, all in this form.
So of course a computer that is humanoid would be unfamiliar to her, and therefore freak her out.
Today's preschoolers will be growing up with more and more humanoid robots around, and therefore will not be bothered by them at all. I would even theorize that if, in 30 years, you showed them a "regular" (box, keyboard, screen), they wouldn't know how to react to it.
This is why you have a server. Servers are where you store your business files, email, etc.
My shop oversees a number of businesses who have policies that say something to the effect of "if you don't save your stuff to the server like we told/showed you 3 dozen times, we are not responsible for your fucking it up and losing it."
And it's a business machine. The company is not responsible for your baby pictures.
Business don't want you to show them how messed up their machines are and how much work you went through to remove the 1356 malicious files from the machine. They want the machine up and running ASAP, because as long as it's down, they're LOSING money.
"Evil will always triumph... Because Good is stupid."
Out back.. around the corner, past the supercollider.
Any idiot who thinks Windows works "right out of the box" has obviously never tried to use Windows "right out of the box".
Here is where you miss the point of "out of the box".
When your average idiot buys a computer from Dell, Gateway, HP, $RESELLER. He gets it home, opens the box, plugs it in, and lo and behold it WORKS. That is what the phrase means. All Joe Luser knows about Windows is that he buys a computer and turns it on and it WORKS.
Currently, you cannot do this with Linux. Mainly because almost no one sells preconfigured Linux boxes that you can just plug in and work. Lindows barely scratches the surface.
Installing Windows from scratch is a totally different story. It is, as you say, fraught with perils. But this is the same no matter what OS you try.
Joe Luser doesn't care about installing windows or any other OS. He wants a computer that he plugs in and it WORKS. He gets this from all major distributors.
Until a major reseller can offer a Linux PC that does the exact same thing CONSISTENTLY, Joe Luser will not use Linux.
One Word:
Resurrection.
But OMG was it UGLY.
(the 4th alien movie where they repeatedly cloned ripley in order to recreate the alien queen, and ended up with a hideous pseudo-humanoid version; complete with saggy breasts *shudder*)
Support, quality are "here and now"??
Funny... Most people I know would define support as "will I get help with it when it breaks in 3/4/10/x years from now?"
Support is a long term feature. No one wants the 90 day warranty when the other guy has 5 years on his. That's not fickle, that's planning.
And Quality of the product translates DIRECTLY into how long it will last and is related to how long it is supported.
Price is definitely here and now, but it is a direct correlation to the above two factors. higher quality + better support almost always = higher price.
Your "long-sighted" view is directly related to the quality and support of the product. So two of your criteria are no different. The only difference is you do it for "free".
Good post.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Instead, we'll probably both get tagged troll/flamebait.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/tacobell.htm
We so need a paranoid moderation... ;)
Although I think it might get overused, especially in an YRO article...
The Indian worker is getting paid a fraction of what you've just spent.
And here is the fallacy in your argument.
That indian tech may be getting a fraction of what YOU make per year. But, he is getting MANY TIMES as much as as the average Indian worker. Wealth is RELATIVE to your PEERS. Read any news story on outsourced workers and you see that they have some of the best living and working conditions in their country. Some even better than a lot of American workers.
And who says that Indian guy doesn't depend on his job? Why couldn't he have built a life around it? Just because they make fewer "American" dollars than you do, doesn't mean they're poor or any less deserving of what they have.
Everything is cheaper over there. The cost of living is way lower. This is why companies move their business there. They can pay him half what you make, and he still makes 3x as much as the next INDIAN worker.
Stop making the same WRONG argument that less american $$ = less skilled or less dedicated to one's job.
There was more contempt in your post than in its parent. You could do the SAME crime working as a first level hell-desk worker in the states. But I guess that would be okay because you "brought that work home."
Especially citing multiple sources of legitimate use.
Talk to your friends on campus also. find as many people as you can that use BT for the same purpose, and write a joint letter, with lots of physical signatures.
yeha.. and w0t! just doesn't have the same ring to it...
=P