It's the classic self-fulfilling prophecy. Imagine two guys coming up to a girl. Both looking the same. But the one think he's ugly and stupid, because he thinks others would think that. But the only reason they think that, is *because* he always thinks that, and all his gestures an facial expressions show it at every moment. The other one is the opposite. His mother always told him how wonderful he is, and although he is a bit dumb, he thinks he's the greatest guy, and acts accordingly.
So who do you think will the girl want more?:)
Same thing here. That VP thinks people will think bad of it, acts accordingly, and thereby gets people into the idea that they can think bad of the device. Because everyone thinks bad of it. And the prophecy is fulfilled: The device fails.
So I say: It will be a giant success! Because the Linux developers will have fun developing for it, adding small tricks that you can do with nothing else. And because the UI does not allow big-time shell hacking, so the tools will have a UI that normal people can use. Also supporting devices can be a community thing, because so many people know Linux already. The first companies selling it, will as usual be Japan, South Korea, and some European countries. Then with the success and the community, the US companies will offer it too, perhaps trying some lockdowns, that will be cracked before official release. In the end, it will beat the iPhone. Especially for serious business people of big companies, and real men, bragging about it.
If you now say that I must be kidding, then you're the one who already bought into the bad mindset from above.:) Think of it this way: Your mindset will play a major role in how well this phone succeeds. Use it! Proudly declare that what you wish, *will* happen, and you *know* it.:)
You contradict yourself twice in that little paragraph. What point is it you are trying to make?? ^^
I think they will simply click on that OK to upgrade, as they click on everything else. To support that, just make the cancel button look small, scary, not recommended, with a sick face and a burning computer on it, and make the OK button 80% of the rest of the dialog, and make it look like a "red cross love palace for health, safety and happiness". I'm serious!
Also, here in Germany, most people use Firefox, you insensitive clod!:P
Sorry, but whatever arguments you tried to make in that comment... are killed by writing in ALL CAPS BOLD.
Protip: The calmer and the more in control of the situation you sound/act, the more people will listen to you.:)
Also, I think that burning coal is wrong at its very core, because everything that is no complete cycle, is doomed to fail. There's no way to sneak around that. With "a complete cycle" I mean something that works neutral to its environment in all its aspects.
A pure mirror-based powerplant already comes very close to that. It's made from simple, abundant, and recyclable materials (aluminium, glass, water, copper, iron), and therefore cheap and simple to build and maintain or repair. You can put it in very dead places like salt planes of deserts. (Or space in case there will be a good way to bring it down to earth.) Even that little life in those salt planes actually finds shelter below the mirrors. Which, when properly set-up, can then be a compensation for whatever got lost. Also, a 115 sq. mi area would suffice for all of humanity. So there are no arguments around it. Hell, you could get rich by building such a plant!
My friend, today it's all about selling dreams. Not actual stuff that you need.
What do you really *need*? Water, air, food, a toilet, shelter and other humans. Maybe some inspirational nature.
Dreams are why Apple is so successful. Of course their products are by far not the best out there. Especially when considering the price. But does it matter?
The problem with Microsoft is: They aren't cool. And without that base, your "look at our cool products" campaigns are doomed to fail.
That is a total deal breaker if you're using it, like me. I have my amplifier connected trough it and for AC-3 decoding. Also it allows you to have good sound by using the amplifier's usually much better D/A converters, instead of those of that crappy on-board sound chip.
I want the CPU to work on my applications, now how they are presented.
You realize, that the point of the new UI (under the hood) is to have this entirely handled by the GPU, do you?
Well, since I made Gentoo my default OS, I can't live without a scriptable command line and things like cron anymore. Many basic tasks would simply become impossible. I know that they exist in Windows 7. But all the apps are GUI apps, and few of them support proper integration into scripts. Also many small helpers are not there on Win7. Especially because many things are not simply available trough the file system. I can't stand an OS anymore, when I don't know how everything in it works and what does what.
First they give you a computer (+1) and then they put Windows 7 on it (-1).
Sorry but when I want to waste energy and have a horrible experience, I'll stick the open ends of a cable in my ears and let it spark! *wheeeee* *brzzzzz*
I'd say: Who said something about it being *free*! After all why I go to an interview, is to test THE COMPANY! (Especially my potential future boss.) And I never work for cheap bastards. I work for the thankful ones. Someone asking me to do something for free on the first hour that I know him is not a good way to show one's sense of fairness. I even say that right out, when asked for free work or something like that. And usually his reaction does not matter anyway, because he's already out of favor with me.
The trick to be able to do this, is to 0. Believe in your own high value. 1. Keep your abilities good enough to be actually worth something and thereby fulfill point 0. 2. Sell yourself very well (that is a skill you have to have!), so that others do point 0 too.
(Or be a "enterprise consultant", and leave out point 1. ^^)
Why not simply add more ram to the system, use a UPS for safety, and then install a HDD cache in that RAM? Could be as easy an cheap under Linux, as installing a $30 RAM bar, configuring and loading a driver.
Why not offer a simple tool. I'd name it "Last Shutdown" and it would be kind of like saying goodbye to your old computer (in style).
It would first ask if you have saved all your personal data outside the computer and/or removed that storage from the system. Then it will go and - safely delete all the hard drives - safely delete all the flash storages/caches - equalize all other residues - safely delete all ram content - empty all caches - etc. While showing a nice animation fitting to the theme.
When done, it would automatically shut off and change the boot sector to something that only lets you boot from a external bootable medium (eg a OS installation) with a fitting message to tell you what to do. (That this is a fresh computer and you first need to install a OS.)
A more advanced version could look a bit better (colorful graphics) and then offer to automatically configure a DHCP connection and then download an install a Linux distribution of choice. This could be used for companies selling computers without an OS installed.
Sorry, but I stopped taking people seriously who mention them.
Everyone who can't remember that in the same freaking week that 9/11 happened, tenthousands of Indians died in a landslide: Don't *dare* to ever mention "terrorist attacks" again!
Or how about the banking scam attack that threw the whole global economy in a recession? Or do you still think that was no deliberate attack?
Etc, etc, etc.
I think we have bigger things to fix, than to use "terrorist attacks" as an excuse to create attacks on our nations values, so big that those terrorist attacks look like freaking jokes in comparison!
Although you can use a motor to drive it, you don't actually need one! Requires no electronics at all! Let alone complex controllers. So no danger to lose power and crash your face into the ground. Costs can go as low as $150! Easy to repair. Everyone can basically do it himself.
I think I will call it a... "bicycle"! Yes. That's it! Waddaya think? Good name? Hm? Hm?
We hosted a counterstrike mirror in 2000, and we had an 1&1 "unlimited traffic" plan.
Guess what. After some more GB of traffic as usual went trough the line with a new update of CS, 1&1 closed the connection.
Well, they not simply closed the server connection. It was CeBit some days later, and we were there at the 1&1 stand. The admin, responsible for that very server (among others) also was there. So we asked him, what happend to our unlimited connection. He apologized and tried to re-open the line. Only to find, that he himself could not connect to the server at all. As if it was blocked at a invisible device in-between.
We could not resolve the issue there, and we later ended the contract.
So don't believe their deliberate lies! There never will be! There are only managers who calculate an average without thinking, when looking at their statistics of traffic up to now (with the limits). And later, managers in panic, who notice that people actually will use that unlimited line, when they have it!
Sadly that form of existence, called "living your life in a walking daze", is the state of nearly all people in this society.
They work for someone who is no bit better than them, has some crappy ideas, but has the money to make others with much better ideas, work for him to make them real. They fall into a passive state of not thinking for yourself. Not leading. And when they come home, they do the same, by watching TV.
I don't think it's actually life anymore. You are just a material that gets used up. A human resource.
If you mean the ink: If you still shell out big time cash for that, you must be blind, because there are more offers for cheap ink, than there are banks in Luxemburg and Switzerland combined! ^^
Simple: Whenever a rich man wants to take them home they will not be "that kind of girl". They will want a "serious long-term relationship". Yeah right. While she fucks a different one of her thousand sexy lovers every night, behind your back! You'll perhaps even raise the child of one of them, instead of yours.
Don't make the false assumption, that money will actually get you laid more often. ^^
Now for really attractive guys (where "attractive" does not necessarily mean "good looking"): There you can bet that her brain switches off just as much. It's just that girls don't talk about it, so they can still bitch about men being dumber for thinking with their private parts.;)
Sorry, but this whole song stems from the basic socially conditioned fallacy that you would have less value than that "pretty girl". I ask you to *completely forgot that*. You are on the very same level as that pretty girl!
Were you ever to a place, where there were so many pretty girls that you your eyes popped out, and your jaw dropped onto the floor? Did you notice, that after some time, they just become normal? Like "Oh, she's ok, but not *that* great.". That's all there is to it: It's just conditioning!
And this is why, when you just assume equal value, you can make the prettiest girl want *you*! Who do you think she will want to talk to: The thousand guys who beg her to just look at them, or the one guy who is just normal to her? (She will think that you are just used to such pretty girls. And for a reason. ^^)
Conclusion: I will marry a pretty girl! Because I'm just as pretty! Period.:)
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It's the classic self-fulfilling prophecy. Imagine two guys coming up to a girl. Both looking the same. But the one think he's ugly and stupid, because he thinks others would think that. But the only reason they think that, is *because* he always thinks that, and all his gestures an facial expressions show it at every moment.
The other one is the opposite. His mother always told him how wonderful he is, and although he is a bit dumb, he thinks he's the greatest guy, and acts accordingly.
So who do you think will the girl want more? :)
Same thing here. That VP thinks people will think bad of it, acts accordingly, and thereby gets people into the idea that they can think bad of the device. Because everyone thinks bad of it. And the prophecy is fulfilled: The device fails.
So I say: It will be a giant success! Because the Linux developers will have fun developing for it, adding small tricks that you can do with nothing else.
And because the UI does not allow big-time shell hacking, so the tools will have a UI that normal people can use.
Also supporting devices can be a community thing, because so many people know Linux already.
The first companies selling it, will as usual be Japan, South Korea, and some European countries. Then with the success and the community, the US companies will offer it too, perhaps trying some lockdowns, that will be cracked before official release.
In the end, it will beat the iPhone. Especially for serious business people of big companies, and real men, bragging about it.
If you now say that I must be kidding, then you're the one who already bought into the bad mindset from above. :) :)
Think of it this way: Your mindset will play a major role in how well this phone succeeds. Use it! Proudly declare that what you wish, *will* happen, and you *know* it.
Some? In Germany, they all require a two year contract. Except for those without a phone.
You contradict yourself twice in that little paragraph. What point is it you are trying to make?? ^^
I think they will simply click on that OK to upgrade, as they click on everything else. To support that, just make the cancel button look small, scary, not recommended, with a sick face and a burning computer on it, and make the OK button 80% of the rest of the dialog, and make it look like a "red cross love palace for health, safety and happiness".
I'm serious!
Also, here in Germany, most people use Firefox, you insensitive clod! :P
Sorry, but whatever arguments you tried to make in that comment... are killed by writing in ALL CAPS BOLD.
Protip: The calmer and the more in control of the situation you sound/act, the more people will listen to you. :)
Also, I think that burning coal is wrong at its very core, because everything that is no complete cycle, is doomed to fail. There's no way to sneak around that.
With "a complete cycle" I mean something that works neutral to its environment in all its aspects.
A pure mirror-based powerplant already comes very close to that. It's made from simple, abundant, and recyclable materials (aluminium, glass, water, copper, iron), and therefore cheap and simple to build and maintain or repair. You can put it in very dead places like salt planes of deserts. (Or space in case there will be a good way to bring it down to earth.)
Even that little life in those salt planes actually finds shelter below the mirrors. Which, when properly set-up, can then be a compensation for whatever got lost.
Also, a 115 sq. mi area would suffice for all of humanity. So there are no arguments around it. Hell, you could get rich by building such a plant!
Nah, that would be too much reliability. :P
My friend, today it's all about selling dreams. Not actual stuff that you need.
What do you really *need*? Water, air, food, a toilet, shelter and other humans. Maybe some inspirational nature.
Dreams are why Apple is so successful. Of course their products are by far not the best out there. Especially when considering the price. But does it matter?
The problem with Microsoft is: They aren't cool. And without that base, your "look at our cool products" campaigns are doomed to fail.
S/PDIF ceased working after installing Windows 7.
That is a total deal breaker if you're using it, like me. I have my amplifier connected trough it and for AC-3 decoding. Also it allows you to have good sound by using the amplifier's usually much better D/A converters, instead of those of that crappy on-board sound chip.
I want the CPU to work on my applications, now how they are presented.
You realize, that the point of the new UI (under the hood) is to have this entirely handled by the GPU, do you?
Well, since I made Gentoo my default OS, I can't live without a scriptable command line and things like cron anymore. Many basic tasks would simply become impossible.
I know that they exist in Windows 7. But all the apps are GUI apps, and few of them support proper integration into scripts. Also many small helpers are not there on Win7. Especially because many things are not simply available trough the file system.
I can't stand an OS anymore, when I don't know how everything in it works and what does what.
Ok you little crybaby! Should I call the waaambulance?
Think about it: If you leave out certain groups when making jokes, you are *discriminating* them (or everyone else, depending on your p.o.v.).
I make fun of every group alike. Even at the same time: "Hey that gay arabic jewniggercunt is a total Nazi!" :P
First they give you a computer (+1) and then they put Windows 7 on it (-1).
Sorry but when I want to waste energy and have a horrible experience, I'll stick the open ends of a cable in my ears and let it spark! *wheeeee* *brzzzzz*
I'd say: Who said something about it being *free*!
After all why I go to an interview, is to test THE COMPANY! (Especially my potential future boss.)
And I never work for cheap bastards. I work for the thankful ones.
Someone asking me to do something for free on the first hour that I know him is not a good way to show one's sense of fairness.
I even say that right out, when asked for free work or something like that.
And usually his reaction does not matter anyway, because he's already out of favor with me.
The trick to be able to do this, is to
0. Believe in your own high value.
1. Keep your abilities good enough to be actually worth something and thereby fulfill point 0.
2. Sell yourself very well (that is a skill you have to have!), so that others do point 0 too.
(Or be a "enterprise consultant", and leave out point 1. ^^)
Why not simply add more ram to the system, use a UPS for safety, and then install a HDD cache in that RAM? Could be as easy an cheap under Linux, as installing a $30 RAM bar, configuring and loading a driver.
Why not offer a simple tool. I'd name it "Last Shutdown" and it would be kind of like saying goodbye to your old computer (in style).
It would first ask if you have saved all your personal data outside the computer and/or removed that storage from the system.
Then it will go and
- safely delete all the hard drives
- safely delete all the flash storages/caches
- equalize all other residues
- safely delete all ram content
- empty all caches
- etc.
While showing a nice animation fitting to the theme.
When done, it would automatically shut off and change the boot sector to something that only lets you boot from a external bootable medium (eg a OS installation) with a fitting message to tell you what to do. (That this is a fresh computer and you first need to install a OS.)
A more advanced version could look a bit better (colorful graphics) and then offer to automatically configure a DHCP connection and then download an install a Linux distribution of choice. This could be used for companies selling computers without an OS installed.
Or is it just that it never existed? (For certain values.) ^^
Sorry, but I stopped taking people seriously who mention them.
Everyone who can't remember that in the same freaking week that 9/11 happened, tenthousands of Indians died in a landslide: Don't *dare* to ever mention "terrorist attacks" again!
Or how about the banking scam attack that threw the whole global economy in a recession? Or do you still think that was no deliberate attack?
Etc, etc, etc.
I think we have bigger things to fix, than to use "terrorist attacks" as an excuse to create attacks on our nations values, so big that those terrorist attacks look like freaking jokes in comparison!
Although you can use a motor to drive it, you don't actually need one!
Requires no electronics at all! Let alone complex controllers.
So no danger to lose power and crash your face into the ground.
Costs can go as low as $150!
Easy to repair. Everyone can basically do it himself.
I think I will call it a... "bicycle"! Yes. That's it! Waddaya think? Good name? Hm? Hm?
He's a girlfriend named Steve? That is really bad news... ;P
Of course, I meant "There never will be an unlimited plan!"
(Sorry, I didn't sleep this night. Without any caffeine.)
We hosted a counterstrike mirror in 2000, and we had an 1&1 "unlimited traffic" plan.
Guess what. After some more GB of traffic as usual went trough the line with a new update of CS, 1&1 closed the connection.
Well, they not simply closed the server connection. It was CeBit some days later, and we were there at the 1&1 stand. The admin, responsible for that very server (among others) also was there. So we asked him, what happend to our unlimited connection. He apologized and tried to re-open the line.
Only to find, that he himself could not connect to the server at all. As if it was blocked at a invisible device in-between.
We could not resolve the issue there, and we later ended the contract.
So don't believe their deliberate lies! There never will be!
There are only managers who calculate an average without thinking, when looking at their statistics of traffic up to now (with the limits).
And later, managers in panic, who notice that people actually will use that unlimited line, when they have it!
Sadly that form of existence, called "living your life in a walking daze", is the state of nearly all people in this society.
They work for someone who is no bit better than them, has some crappy ideas, but has the money to make others with much better ideas, work for him to make them real.
They fall into a passive state of not thinking for yourself. Not leading. And when they come home, they do the same, by watching TV.
I don't think it's actually life anymore. You are just a material that gets used up. A human resource.
Well, it's new for us who did not go to the Comic-Con, and don't read other comic-related blogs. Better late then never.
On the other hand, it's highly likely that those who still don't know about it, also don't actually care about it. ;)
If you mean the ink: If you still shell out big time cash for that, you must be blind, because there are more offers for cheap ink, than there are banks in Luxemburg and Switzerland combined! ^^
Until the next morning, when the extreme emotional roller-coaster that is her character starts to take you for the ride called "everyday life". ;)
If you had been there, you knew.
I'd tell her that I don't get why they think that she's good looking, and that I wonder if she's just as boring inside. :P
Believe me, she will start trying to prove *her* worthiness. ^^
Simple: Whenever a rich man wants to take them home they will not be "that kind of girl". They will want a "serious long-term relationship". Yeah right. While she fucks a different one of her thousand sexy lovers every night, behind your back! You'll perhaps even raise the child of one of them, instead of yours.
Don't make the false assumption, that money will actually get you laid more often. ^^
Now for really attractive guys (where "attractive" does not necessarily mean "good looking"): There you can bet that her brain switches off just as much. ;)
It's just that girls don't talk about it, so they can still bitch about men being dumber for thinking with their private parts.
Sorry, but this whole song stems from the basic socially conditioned fallacy that you would have less value than that "pretty girl".
I ask you to *completely forgot that*. You are on the very same level as that pretty girl!
Were you ever to a place, where there were so many pretty girls that you your eyes popped out, and your jaw dropped onto the floor?
Did you notice, that after some time, they just become normal? Like "Oh, she's ok, but not *that* great.".
That's all there is to it: It's just conditioning!
And this is why, when you just assume equal value, you can make the prettiest girl want *you*! Who do you think she will want to talk to: The thousand guys who beg her to just look at them, or the one guy who is just normal to her? (She will think that you are just used to such pretty girls. And for a reason. ^^)
Conclusion: I will marry a pretty girl! Because I'm just as pretty! Period. :)