So they copied a very early Mac Powerbook design. I serviced them in the early 90's, and it was 15 seconds to disassemble - and it looked an awful lot like the breakout in the article.
I'm nostalgic about old porn, back before it was "interview and nail". My first Porno was "Pretty Peaches 2". It had a sense of ridiculousness that made it fun to watch. I'd even tolerate "80's bush" to have porn not take itself so seriously. And no, a hundred versions of "big sausage pizza" doesn't cut it. Ah... Siobhan... You were so unconvincing as the 20 year old who hadn't been laid...
"this would be the perfect time. Google, Apple and Oracle, their biggest competitors, are in a major shoot out. What Microsoft needs to do is exploit the patent conflict by publicly ending its patent threats against FOSS. Completely, no exceptions. While it does that, it should make Windows 8 the first release that breaks with the past by moving all legacy technologies into a sandbox a la what OS X originally did. Finally, they should work on extending whatever POSIX compatibility they still have left until Windows 8 can reliably run code originally written on Linux and OS X. Why? Because it would bridge one of the last gaps between Windows 7 and OS X."
Why would they want to do that? Linux users aren't going to come to their camp. What do they gain by making peace with everybody? The goal for Microsoft, after all, is money. How does throwing away your patents and embracing the enemy make you money?
"Hell, one lady I was dating said I didn't act like a boyfriend, I guess I should have slapped her around some, but I don't need that kind of relationship."
Allow me to interpret. What she really was saying was, "You're bad at sex, and not attentive enough to my moods to make me forgive you for it."
Mystery solved.
"The group "anonymous" is everyone and it is no-one...it is what was once your devoted fan-base likely."
His fanbase is comprised primarily of people in the generations that still buy records. "Anonymous" probably never bought a single Kiss album. I can be pretty sure if they bought "Dressed to Kill" they aren't DDOS'sing anybody.
"2010 is the year of the Linux desktop!!" isn't realistic, but neither is "Linux on the desktop is dead!!"
Since 2000 was supposed to be the year of linux on the desktop, one would think that a decade late would be attainable. But here we are in 2010, and linux is still stuck in single digits. Loooow single digits.
Linux on the desktop isn't dead, but I think what probably IS dead is the hope that it will one day capture any significant percentage of the market.
I dismissed 3D TV as going nowhere when I saw the Samsung offering in store. It looked like crap.
Then a buddy bought a Panasonic TCP58VT25. The 2D picture is fantastic in its own right... and I played the 3D Motorstorm demo on the PS3. 3D changes everything on a racing game.
"Words processors have continued to have more and more tools, making them harder and harder to use."
For the purposes of this guy's word grinding, any word processor in existence would be spectacularly easy to use. Launch, type, save. Maybe print. The fact that he couldn't resist doing the formatting when writing is his problem, not the tool's. He overcomplicated his work flow. "But too often I tackled the day's writing deciding such issues as a font for the day's draft." I mean, come on, dude. Pick one that looks like the typewriter output you yearn for and go write.
"Look at Microsloth Word: it keeps getting more and more like a page layout program, and less and less like a tool to get text in the computer."
Actually it's a perfectly decent tool for getting text in the computer, unless you're VERY easily distracted, and then when you're done typing, it becomes a page layout program. And seriously, "Microsloth"? Is it 2002 again? I thought that tiresome insult-through-spelling thing had died down.
"Then you were not working with idiots. I've worked with IDIOTS. I'm talking about people who freak out if their desktop icons get rearranged. I'm talking about people who submit helpdesk tickets... I expect... I expect..."
The guy who wrote the post you replied to made the point beautifully, and you didn't get.
"Sadly, most people I've come across are incapable of these simplest things."
There are three options here. #1 - You're working in a special needs facility. #2 - You're looking at the world through horribly jaded eyes and actually believe that. #3 - That's a straight up lie.
"Yet another example of why I am sooooooo glad I don't own a smartphone and won't be buying one soon."
I can't shift into drive in my vehicle unless I have my foot on the brake. By your logic I should do without all the good reasons to own a vehicle and walk everywhere instead.
I've often said that we should just put a 5 year stop to all new language and framework development and just spend the time fixing what we have already. A new language is far less useful than a fix for an existing, widely-used language.
When I hear about yet another stack doing something for which we've had solutions for years, I just get tired. Java is the poster child for this insanity. I sometimes think there are more Java frameworks than there are enterprise applications successfully delivered, but less than failed Java enterprise projects.
Robust, hardened, bug-free software is far more appealing to me than "new, shiny, and fragile." But then I just turned 40. Get off my lawn.
"So Chang'E-1's (CE-1) orbit was conducted at an altitude of 200km (124 miles)"
As long as we provide the distance in miles, why don't we also give it in leagues? I'm sure somebody still uses leagues, so despite the whole world going with the International System of Units fifty years ago (except for three countries, including Burma, Liberia, and some other backward-looking nation I can't recall) we should definitely provide leagues.
"That's better than having Apple tell kids what apps are suited for their iEducation "
Good grief. Yeah, somewhere there's an Apple board fiendishly plotting to control education through app development. Don't be retarded. I have a bunch of programming manuals on my iPad in PDF format. Apple didn't sign off on them. And if they want to build custom apps, all the school needs is a different license type and they can build and deploy apps that don't use the app store to all their iPads, bypassing the whole approval process.
But please don't let reality get in the way of a good android rant.
"Exchange is basically a pop3 service. Hardly anybody uses Outlook's calendar and nobody uses SharePoint. Companies are having
the worst time attempting to shove that down employee throats. Sticky notes are way better."
Our organization stretches across North America, and we use Outlook, it's calendar, and Sharepoint. Now, while the thousands of employees that make us up still might qualify as "hardly anybody", I doubt we're alone.
We migrated from Lotus Notes, and let me tell you, I'm much happier.
Libel laws exist for a reason. If he decides to advertise to everybody that specific officers did specific things then he'd better be able to prove it.
The fact that it's the police he's railing against doesn't matter. If he'd have just stuck to ranting about the police in general he wouldn't have had a problem.
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So they copied a very early Mac Powerbook design. I serviced them in the early 90's, and it was 15 seconds to disassemble - and it looked an awful lot like the breakout in the article.
Go, Stanford!
Wrong thread.
They're sacrificing chickens at the alter of biofuels.
How deliciously accurate. They've admitted biofuel are a desperate, unsupportable hail mary to the Gods. --
They're sacrificing chickens at the alter of biofuels.
How deliciously accurate. They've admitted biofuel are a desperate, unsupportable hail mary to the Gods.
I'm nostalgic about old porn, back before it was "interview and nail". My first Porno was "Pretty Peaches 2". It had a sense of ridiculousness that made it fun to watch. I'd even tolerate "80's bush" to have porn not take itself so seriously. And no, a hundred versions of "big sausage pizza" doesn't cut it. Ah... Siobhan... You were so unconvincing as the 20 year old who hadn't been laid...
I didn't download this film... wonder if they'll go after fans of Kendra or Karissa? Not that I'm worried. Okay, maybe I'm... slightly concerned...
"when charged from a direct current source"
Am I gonna need 2000 amp breakers for the garage?
"this would be the perfect time. Google, Apple and Oracle, their biggest competitors, are in a major shoot out. What Microsoft needs to do is exploit the patent conflict by publicly ending its patent threats against FOSS. Completely, no exceptions. While it does that, it should make Windows 8 the first release that breaks with the past by moving all legacy technologies into a sandbox a la what OS X originally did. Finally, they should work on extending whatever POSIX compatibility they still have left until Windows 8 can reliably run code originally written on Linux and OS X. Why? Because it would bridge one of the last gaps between Windows 7 and OS X."
Why would they want to do that? Linux users aren't going to come to their camp. What do they gain by making peace with everybody? The goal for Microsoft, after all, is money. How does throwing away your patents and embracing the enemy make you money?
Seriously, a mountain of mice will have their buttons sacrificed. Is logitech publicly traded? I'd buy that.
"Hell, one lady I was dating said I didn't act like a boyfriend, I guess I should have slapped her around some, but I don't need that kind of relationship."
Allow me to interpret. What she really was saying was, "You're bad at sex, and not attentive enough to my moods to make me forgive you for it." Mystery solved.
"The group "anonymous" is everyone and it is no-one...it is what was once your devoted fan-base likely."
His fanbase is comprised primarily of people in the generations that still buy records. "Anonymous" probably never bought a single Kiss album. I can be pretty sure if they bought "Dressed to Kill" they aren't DDOS'sing anybody.
"2010 is the year of the Linux desktop!!" isn't realistic, but neither is "Linux on the desktop is dead!!"
Since 2000 was supposed to be the year of linux on the desktop, one would think that a decade late would be attainable. But here we are in 2010, and linux is still stuck in single digits. Loooow single digits.
Linux on the desktop isn't dead, but I think what probably IS dead is the hope that it will one day capture any significant percentage of the market.
I dismissed 3D TV as going nowhere when I saw the Samsung offering in store. It looked like crap.
Then a buddy bought a Panasonic TCP58VT25. The 2D picture is fantastic in its own right... and I played the 3D Motorstorm demo on the PS3. 3D changes everything on a racing game.
"Words processors have continued to have more and more tools, making them harder and harder to use."
For the purposes of this guy's word grinding, any word processor in existence would be spectacularly easy to use. Launch, type, save. Maybe print. The fact that he couldn't resist doing the formatting when writing is his problem, not the tool's. He overcomplicated his work flow. "But too often I tackled the day's writing deciding such issues as a font for the day's draft." I mean, come on, dude. Pick one that looks like the typewriter output you yearn for and go write.
"Look at Microsloth Word: it keeps getting more and more like a page layout program, and less and less like a tool to get text in the computer."
Actually it's a perfectly decent tool for getting text in the computer, unless you're VERY easily distracted, and then when you're done typing, it becomes a page layout program. And seriously, "Microsloth"? Is it 2002 again? I thought that tiresome insult-through-spelling thing had died down.
"The same side of the moon is always facing the Earth, because it bounced off of the Earth."
Actually nearly all significant moons have one side always facing the bodies they orbit. It's not because of collision, it's because of tidal locking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
"Then you were not working with idiots. I've worked with IDIOTS. I'm talking about people who freak out if their desktop icons get rearranged. I'm talking about people who submit helpdesk tickets... I expect... I expect..."
The guy who wrote the post you replied to made the point beautifully, and you didn't get.
"Sadly, most people I've come across are incapable of these simplest things."
There are three options here. #1 - You're working in a special needs facility. #2 - You're looking at the world through horribly jaded eyes and actually believe that. #3 - That's a straight up lie.
"Yet another example of why I am sooooooo glad I don't own a smartphone and won't be buying one soon."
I can't shift into drive in my vehicle unless I have my foot on the brake. By your logic I should do without all the good reasons to own a vehicle and walk everywhere instead.
My Amplitube application says different.
Let's see them try to fake THEIR moon landings with cameras from the 1960s! That's how a manly country would do it.
I've often said that we should just put a 5 year stop to all new language and framework development and just spend the time fixing what we have already. A new language is far less useful than a fix for an existing, widely-used language.
When I hear about yet another stack doing something for which we've had solutions for years, I just get tired. Java is the poster child for this insanity. I sometimes think there are more Java frameworks than there are enterprise applications successfully delivered, but less than failed Java enterprise projects.
Robust, hardened, bug-free software is far more appealing to me than "new, shiny, and fragile." But then I just turned 40. Get off my lawn.
Somebody modded me funny, then somebody modded me flamebait.
Rereading it, I'd like to think it's a little funny, but yes, it's definitely flamebait. No question.
Let's hope they balance out and I remain even karma-wise.
"So Chang'E-1's (CE-1) orbit was conducted at an altitude of 200km (124 miles)"
As long as we provide the distance in miles, why don't we also give it in leagues? I'm sure somebody still uses leagues, so despite the whole world going with the International System of Units fifty years ago (except for three countries, including Burma, Liberia, and some other backward-looking nation I can't recall) we should definitely provide leagues.
"That's better than having Apple tell kids what apps are suited for their iEducation "
Good grief. Yeah, somewhere there's an Apple board fiendishly plotting to control education through app development. Don't be retarded. I have a bunch of programming manuals on my iPad in PDF format. Apple didn't sign off on them. And if they want to build custom apps, all the school needs is a different license type and they can build and deploy apps that don't use the app store to all their iPads, bypassing the whole approval process.
But please don't let reality get in the way of a good android rant.
"Exchange is basically a pop3 service. Hardly anybody uses Outlook's calendar and nobody uses SharePoint. Companies are having the worst time attempting to shove that down employee throats. Sticky notes are way better."
Our organization stretches across North America, and we use Outlook, it's calendar, and Sharepoint. Now, while the thousands of employees that make us up still might qualify as "hardly anybody", I doubt we're alone.
We migrated from Lotus Notes, and let me tell you, I'm much happier.
Libel laws exist for a reason. If he decides to advertise to everybody that specific officers did specific things then he'd better be able to prove it.
The fact that it's the police he's railing against doesn't matter. If he'd have just stuck to ranting about the police in general he wouldn't have had a problem.