What's wrong is the insurance companies you mention! Very very very very wrong! Like "raping babies *while* eating their brains out" wrong!
A heart monitor is actually quite a useful tool for an optimal individual training.
Just put a copyright on *your* heart data. And never make a contract with such a insurance company. I mean what's the reason when they pay nothing, but you pay a ton to them, anyway? You can just throw money in a box every month, and likely have more off of it. Or do it in the community... oh wait, that would be "socialism". ^^
P.S.: We should extend Godwin's law to socialism, terrorism, and some other things.:)
Ha. I programmed mine for Mozilla (Seamonkey) and Firefox. "IE? Sorry, no can do. Technically not possible. Or will cost four times the time and money. How are you going to justify that? By not wanting to take five minutes to install Firefox? You can be sure that I will show the boss those costs that your laziness caused. Oh boy will you be fired. ^^"
And it won't change, because of people like you. Don't you get that?
I, for one, say: It's the way things are? Says who? And why should I care? I have my own set of values. Sex is the reason we exist. Violence is a reason some don't. Both is natural. But it's perverse, to prefer the latter. Are you perverse, Mr. Boss?
Sure, this way is not for those with a weak reality and no spine. Luckily, not everyone is like that. (But I stopped to work for others two years ago, started to just do what I love, and attract the people who like it too.)
On a more serious note: What's actually worse than bacteria (many of which you actually need on your skin to stay healthy), is the overuse of skin "care" products when not needed. Especially when they destroy your natural layers of protection. I learned that the more simple it is, the better it is. I mean what do you really need to get your skin clean again? You don't want to remove all the tallow/fat for obvious health reasons, so you will only need a tiny bit of tensides. This also helps protect your skin from drying out from the water (which "normal" health products actually enable if used "normally", and then "fix" again. Selling it to you like some great feature.) The other thing that helps drying out, is of course, to not stand in the water half the day. ^^ (In that case you need some external fat sources to refill your protective layer.)
And then? Hmm... I guess that's it. Bacteria can't usually get through the skin anyway. After all, that's one of the reasons it exists in the first place.
So what is all the rest for? To temporarily make your skin softer than normal, while being bad for it in the long run. (E.g. Dove) To coat your hair with "protective substances" that aren't very healthy for them, just so they look and feel better, but actually aren't. (Typical product sold with this wording: Panthene shampoo & co.) etc, etc, etc.
I bet there's a Firefox extension for that. Opera can do user stylesheets and disabling scripts/images with one key anyway.
So you can still use all the extensions and features that you still might need. (Or are you one of those that would prefer surfing trough emacs as a combined telnet and OS shell? ^^
Do you even realize how backwards and stupid that sounds?
Well, if the sir from the marine corps web monkey (obviously no developer would prefer to code for IE) team would move his lazy ass, and just upgrade his fuckin' site... wouldn't that be something?
Seriously. It's like breeding whining self-centered idiots that want you to feed and swaddle them, by having a culture of never exposing anyone to any tiny little expectation of change or self-thinking. Same thing here. Why do they have this horrible, outdated, IE centered site? Because you let them. If I were Microsoft, I'd say upgrade your browser, of never call us again, or expect to get any updates to your OS. "Sorry sir, we don't have anyone who is trained to do that, and we don't have software that old anymore. Unfortunately, we can't help you if you keep using outdated software. Our fix to your problem IS the upgrades we provide." And then I would think "Go ahead. Whine. Insult. Sue. Because you're such a spoiled loser. It won't change a thing!" ^^
But they are claiming that their drives can handle those loads without failing.
Yeah, right. Just as HDD manufacturers claim, their drives would survive a decade of normal loads, for about decades now. While in reality often failing in 2-3 years or less.
Sorry, but with my experience, I won't believe a word of their claims. My data is worth too much.
I stopped caring about speed. As long as it's fast enough to boot before I'm done in the kitchen and bathroom, and as long as it manages to stream HD movies and the like, it's OK.
I rather prefer a good ZFS pool and a set of reliable drives, that survive the first 3 years, but also the next 20!
That thing is really badly designed. I mean the page-flipping idea is kinda OK. But it's 1. Slow as hell. It usually lags and slips way past what you pointed the mouse at. 2. Has very buggy styles. The text is cut off at the borders. 3. Does not use any usability knowledge.
a) Lacks headlines in the boxes.
b) Lacks lead-in sentences/paragraphs.
c) Lacks an acceptable font.
d) The images get cut off. Mostly in a manner that makes them useless.
e) Has a horrible contrast ratio. 4. Has no sense of design whatsoever. There is no color harmony at all in that thing. It's more like a neon attack on your eyes/brain. And it has no air in it. It just looks like a quick hack.
There's much work to do on that thing.
Oh, wait... It's supposed to be funny... That's sad... because it even fails at that. ^^
Don't put fuckin' tiny navigational links on your sites!! Seriously, what is it with these retard designers who choose to make the most important UI element on the site the tiniest? Forums are the typical example. You got four screen pages of messages, and then on the bottom, there is a link that literally is just one character and looks like this is 8px font size: >> And the page numbers are just as tiny.
The same thing is true for window managers, where the close button is a tiny dot at the edge of the window. (I removed those buttons completely and can just hold the Windows key and middle-click anywhere on a window do close it. [The left and right buttons are for movement and resizing, with the same method.])
And of course, without an ad-blocker and with all the Flash loading, it's slow as hell. For really fast reading, I recommend using a user style sheet, and disabling all author styles and images/flash.
Wrong. What's wrong about it, is that "malware" is not defined. And that they get to decide what that is. Which means, they can cut you off at will, and then make up an excuse by saying that you had the Internet Explorer installed, a clear malware. Or anything like that.
They have no right to decide such matters. Period. That is what is totalitarian about it.
On a more serious note: They can't simply cut off the connection. You have a contract. They have an obligation to fulfill it. If they don't, sue, and let them pay for the damage, the breach of contract, the expenses, the expenses to calculate and mail the expenses, and the expenses to... GOTO 10. ^^ Also, a court first would have to decide what is defined as "malware". Because in my eyes, the software that most ISPs offer their clients to "dial in" or "configure the system" is just malware itself.
No. What gave you the idea? Linux always was a "everything" OS. From the smallest portable and embedded devices capable of 32 bit, to the biggest supercomputers on the world.
Besides: I use ZFS on my small Linux server via FUSE, which unfortunately makes it a crazy resources hog, with using up 600 MB of RAM, and one of the two cores of hat thing. But the scrubbing — which I absolutely need — makes it worth it. I wonder how much resources it takes under OpenSolaris, and if a OpenSolaris virtual server, just for the ZFS, would make sense...
The North-Korean and Chinese governments called. They are interested in his DNA. Their plan seems to be, to create a virus that infects people with that DNA to "heal" them from their "perversities like wishes for freedom".
Oh wait, the UK just joined the conference call...
Add to that the fact, that you can very well shoot someone with a pistol, and not kill him. Some people survive as much an nine shots. So games are actually more realistic in the number of shots you need to die, than movies are. ^^
I wonder what the problem with all this shit is? Penis/Tit replacement?
Because if we just wanted to immobilize someone, we could use a simple sedative that has a flexible non-dangerous range of dosage, and make "bullets" (darts) out of that.
1. You ARE an animal. (Or are you a plant?) 2. If you treat an animal like that, don't be surprised if it bites you in the face. 3. One deserves being bitten in the face for treating an animal like that.
I'm planning to go to Alpha Centauri! I've already got a realistic rocket concept, and Sid Meier did the simulation software to train our Assblastonauts (Yeah! They're ten times fuckin' cooler than your ones! That's why they have cooler names too!)
Wohoo! We'll launch at time X-1. Where X is the time when you will launch yours! So we can nuke it right back to earth!
(I've just read your subject. It's a false dichotomy. Because to be useful, it has to be financed. To be financed, it has to be supported by politicians. And to be supported by them, it has to be popular. Simple as that, as long as you consider this nation belonging to the people.)
How do you expect science to be popular, when every retard out there can rant about "elitism" and how people should be ashamed of themselves for having more than half a brain, it being un-American, and intelligent people actually buying into that reality?
We must stop stuffing people with special respect, support, help, feed and swaddle them, because they are failures. (No, stupid! That does not mean that we should do the opposite!) We have to get back again, to treating people on an equal basis, and then for what they achieved and how they are.
As long as a loser who got kids with his own sister, refuses to learn at all, and expects everyone to treat him specially for it, can insult people because he is jealous, but it's a taboo to tell him what he is, because oh it's not "politically correct", science will not become popular.
I really wish, the world wars and Nazis never had happened, and Germany (where I live) would still be the land of the poets and thinkers.:(
Yesterday around noon, I started an emerge -aetv world, and it's still running, with 516 of 1304 packages left. Imagine all the time I will save with my super-fast optimized system, when it's done approximately tomorrow afternoon. Or just to fix a seemingly minor bug.
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What's wrong is the insurance companies you mention! Very very very very wrong! Like "raping babies *while* eating their brains out" wrong!
A heart monitor is actually quite a useful tool for an optimal individual training.
Just put a copyright on *your* heart data. And never make a contract with such a insurance company. I mean what's the reason when they pay nothing, but you pay a ton to them, anyway? You can just throw money in a box every month, and likely have more off of it. Or do it in the community... oh wait, that would be "socialism". ^^
P.S.: We should extend Godwin's law to socialism, terrorism, and some other things. :)
Ha. I programmed mine for Mozilla (Seamonkey) and Firefox. "IE? Sorry, no can do. Technically not possible. Or will cost four times the time and money. How are you going to justify that? By not wanting to take five minutes to install Firefox? You can be sure that I will show the boss those costs that your laziness caused. Oh boy will you be fired. ^^"
Damn, now I HAVE to click that link. Can't... stand... the... curiosity...
Hey, that IS my work, you insensitive clod!
And it won't change, because of people like you. Don't you get that?
I, for one, say: It's the way things are? Says who? And why should I care? I have my own set of values. Sex is the reason we exist. Violence is a reason some don't. Both is natural. But it's perverse, to prefer the latter. Are you perverse, Mr. Boss?
Sure, this way is not for those with a weak reality and no spine. Luckily, not everyone is like that.
(But I stopped to work for others two years ago, started to just do what I love, and attract the people who like it too.)
Living dirty like shit. ^^
On a more serious note: What's actually worse than bacteria (many of which you actually need on your skin to stay healthy), is the overuse of skin "care" products when not needed.
Especially when they destroy your natural layers of protection.
I learned that the more simple it is, the better it is. I mean what do you really need to get your skin clean again?
You don't want to remove all the tallow/fat for obvious health reasons, so you will only need a tiny bit of tensides.
This also helps protect your skin from drying out from the water (which "normal" health products actually enable if used "normally", and then "fix" again. Selling it to you like some great feature.) The other thing that helps drying out, is of course, to not stand in the water half the day. ^^ (In that case you need some external fat sources to refill your protective layer.)
And then? Hmm... I guess that's it. Bacteria can't usually get through the skin anyway. After all, that's one of the reasons it exists in the first place.
So what is all the rest for?
To temporarily make your skin softer than normal, while being bad for it in the long run. (E.g. Dove)
To coat your hair with "protective substances" that aren't very healthy for them, just so they look and feel better, but actually aren't. (Typical product sold with this wording: Panthene shampoo & co.)
etc, etc, etc.
Lol. What the... guys, have you read it? It's no flame by far! It's normal conversation. You add the tone to it.
I recommend to at least try to understand a comment, and its intent, before moderating.
I bet there's a Firefox extension for that. Opera can do user stylesheets and disabling scripts/images with one key anyway.
So you can still use all the extensions and features that you still might need. (Or are you one of those that would prefer surfing trough emacs as a combined telnet and OS shell? ^^
Do you even realize how backwards and stupid that sounds?
Well, if the sir from the marine corps web monkey (obviously no developer would prefer to code for IE) team would move his lazy ass, and just upgrade his fuckin' site... wouldn't that be something?
Seriously. It's like breeding whining self-centered idiots that want you to feed and swaddle them, by having a culture of never exposing anyone to any tiny little expectation of change or self-thinking.
Same thing here. Why do they have this horrible, outdated, IE centered site? Because you let them.
If I were Microsoft, I'd say upgrade your browser, of never call us again, or expect to get any updates to your OS. "Sorry sir, we don't have anyone who is trained to do that, and we don't have software that old anymore. Unfortunately, we can't help you if you keep using outdated software. Our fix to your problem IS the upgrades we provide."
And then I would think "Go ahead. Whine. Insult. Sue. Because you're such a spoiled loser. It won't change a thing!" ^^
But they are claiming that their drives can handle those loads without failing.
Yeah, right. Just as HDD manufacturers claim, their drives would survive a decade of normal loads, for about decades now. While in reality often failing in 2-3 years or less.
Sorry, but with my experience, I won't believe a word of their claims. My data is worth too much.
I stopped caring about speed. As long as it's fast enough to boot before I'm done in the kitchen and bathroom, and as long as it manages to stream HD movies and the like, it's OK.
I rather prefer a good ZFS pool and a set of reliable drives, that survive the first 3 years, but also the next 20!
But I then would wand FOUR of them! ^^
Man, some people just deserve to be ripped off!
That thing is really badly designed. I mean the page-flipping idea is kinda OK. But it's
1. Slow as hell. It usually lags and slips way past what you pointed the mouse at.
2. Has very buggy styles. The text is cut off at the borders.
3. Does not use any usability knowledge.
a) Lacks headlines in the boxes.
b) Lacks lead-in sentences/paragraphs.
c) Lacks an acceptable font.
d) The images get cut off. Mostly in a manner that makes them useless.
e) Has a horrible contrast ratio.
4. Has no sense of design whatsoever. There is no color harmony at all in that thing. It's more like a neon attack on your eyes/brain. And it has no air in it. It just looks like a quick hack.
There's much work to do on that thing.
Oh, wait... It's supposed to be funny...
That's sad... because it even fails at that. ^^
Don't put fuckin' tiny navigational links on your sites!!
Seriously, what is it with these retard designers who choose to make the most important UI element on the site the tiniest?
Forums are the typical example. You got four screen pages of messages, and then on the bottom, there is a link that literally is just one character and looks like this is 8px font size: >>
And the page numbers are just as tiny.
The same thing is true for window managers, where the close button is a tiny dot at the edge of the window. (I removed those buttons completely and can just hold the Windows key and middle-click anywhere on a window do close it. [The left and right buttons are for movement and resizing, with the same method.])
And of course, without an ad-blocker and with all the Flash loading, it's slow as hell. For really fast reading, I recommend using a user style sheet, and disabling all author styles and images/flash.
Wrong. What's wrong about it, is that "malware" is not defined. And that they get to decide what that is. Which means, they can cut you off at will, and then make up an excuse by saying that you had the Internet Explorer installed, a clear malware. Or anything like that.
They have no right to decide such matters. Period. That is what is totalitarian about it.
Just cut off all Windows users "preemtively". ;)
On a more serious note: They can't simply cut off the connection. You have a contract. They have an obligation to fulfill it. If they don't, sue, and let them pay for the damage, the breach of contract, the expenses, the expenses to calculate and mail the expenses, and the expenses to... GOTO 10. ^^
Also, a court first would have to decide what is defined as "malware". Because in my eyes, the software that most ISPs offer their clients to "dial in" or "configure the system" is just malware itself.
No. What gave you the idea? Linux always was a "everything" OS. From the smallest portable and embedded devices capable of 32 bit, to the biggest supercomputers on the world.
But I agree on the enterprise-grade features. We're professionals. Professional craftsmen wouldn't use tools from the local DIY store. They use tools like this: http://www.us.hilti.com/holus/modules/prcat/prca_main.jsp
Besides: I use ZFS on my small Linux server via FUSE, which unfortunately makes it a crazy resources hog, with using up 600 MB of RAM, and one of the two cores of hat thing. But the scrubbing — which I absolutely need — makes it worth it. I wonder how much resources it takes under OpenSolaris, and if a OpenSolaris virtual server, just for the ZFS, would make sense...
The North-Korean and Chinese governments called. They are interested in his DNA. Their plan seems to be, to create a virus that infects people with that DNA to "heal" them from their "perversities like wishes for freedom".
Oh wait, the UK just joined the conference call...
Add to that the fact, that you can very well shoot someone with a pistol, and not kill him. Some people survive as much an nine shots. So games are actually more realistic in the number of shots you need to die, than movies are. ^^
I wonder what the problem with all this shit is? Penis/Tit replacement?
Because if we just wanted to immobilize someone, we could use a simple sedative that has a flexible non-dangerous range of dosage, and make "bullets" (darts) out of that.
1. You ARE an animal. (Or are you a plant?)
2. If you treat an animal like that, don't be surprised if it bites you in the face.
3. One deserves being bitten in the face for treating an animal like that.
Bah. Luxemburgish Weltraumonauten are the best! (As soon as Luxemburg will have a space program... in 2355...)
I'm planning to go to Alpha Centauri! I've already got a realistic rocket concept, and Sid Meier did the simulation software to train our Assblastonauts (Yeah! They're ten times fuckin' cooler than your ones! That's why they have cooler names too!)
Wohoo! We'll launch at time X-1. Where X is the time when you will launch yours! So we can nuke it right back to earth!
(I've just read your subject. It's a false dichotomy. Because to be useful, it has to be financed. To be financed, it has to be supported by politicians. And to be supported by them, it has to be popular. Simple as that, as long as you consider this nation belonging to the people.)
How do you expect science to be popular, when every retard out there can rant about "elitism" and how people should be ashamed of themselves for having more than half a brain, it being un-American, and intelligent people actually buying into that reality?
We must stop stuffing people with special respect, support, help, feed and swaddle them, because they are failures. (No, stupid! That does not mean that we should do the opposite!)
We have to get back again, to treating people on an equal basis, and then for what they achieved and how they are.
As long as a loser who got kids with his own sister, refuses to learn at all, and expects everyone to treat him specially for it, can insult people because he is jealous, but it's a taboo to tell him what he is, because oh it's not "politically correct",
science will not become popular.
I really wish, the world wars and Nazis never had happened, and Germany (where I live) would still be the land of the poets and thinkers. :(
Yesterday around noon, I started an emerge -aetv world, and it's still running, with 516 of 1304 packages left.
Imagine all the time I will save with my super-fast optimized system, when it's done approximately tomorrow afternoon.
Or just to fix a seemingly minor bug.
P.S.: I wish I was kidding!